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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hunziker)
Wed Nov 4 17:31:08 1998
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 15:47:32 -0600
From: Mike Hunziker <MCHunziker@us.fortis.com>
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I swear I'm not trying to be a wise ass but you really should get a good
feel for vi. I've never used emacs so I really can't say how great and
easy it is but vi is almost always available and works fine for any kind of
text editing. You don't need to replace emacs with it but get used to the
features....it's alot more powerful than you think and it's handy to know.
> Okay, I give up...
>I've been trying to do most of what I do without using Xwindows. I
>know this sounds a bit crazy, but I really like working on a simple and
>clean interface.
>Well, I finally have "enough" knowledge and things setup so I no
>longer need the GUI tools to help me do this and that - with one
>exception...
>I use emacs extensively. Started with it and stayed with it and
>its about the only editor I really know. But I can't make the blasted
>thing (emacs) do much of anything unless I run it in Xwindows. I'm
>running the standard RedHat 5.0 emacs installation - no tweaks. And I'm
>calling emacs by entering "emacs" at the command line. As the mouse
>works on everything else without the window manager, it seems to me
>that I might either be calling the wrong emacs, or there is something
>wrong with my installation - simply, I can't make emacs do anything
>unless I run it in an Xwindow.
>Is there something I'm missing here?
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Brent Sims
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