[102399] in RedHat Linux List
Re: (EDT|Brief)-like editor
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Wed Dec 2 19:33:50 1998
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 19:15:41 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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G.Boggio@agora.stm.it wrote:
> I have just installed RH 5.2, from a CD-ROM attached to an Italian
> magazine, without any problem. I should like to become familiar with
> Linux (I'm not afraid of technicalities as I have been a system
> programmer for 30 years) but I fear a repeat of the experience I had
> with Coherent a few years ago: I stopped using it simply because I
> got bored with having to use MicroEmacs for editing (I didn't even
> consider using the Vi clone, Elvis).
>
The real GNU emacs comes with Redhat. Some prefer xemacs
for its fancier X interface. There is mg which feels like
GNU emacs but is very small. GNU emacs can emulate
EDT, Crisp or vi. But a true lover of EDT, Crisp or vi
will not like an emulator.
[...]
>
> I also have a nontechnical question. I find the list interesting,
> but the traffic is very heavy. This is not normally a problem, but
> sometimes I'm unable to access e-mail for a week or so and I cannot
> allow thousands of unread messages to accumulate on my provider's
> server. Is there a mechanism for suspending/restarting mail from
> the list without having to unsubscribe/re-subscribe, something like
> listserv's 'set nomail', 'set mail'? I have tried posting a query
> to redhat-list-request with the subject starting with "Re:" but the
> server just sent me the help file.
You could leave your Linux machine on, and use cron jobs
to go online for 3 minutes and fetch your mail (with fetchmail)
once a day. To save power the monitor can be off.
--
Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
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