[olug] emacs book

[Andrew Embury]

I would have to agree with Mike, that its just not worth learning Emacs
anymore, unless you are going to do some very heavy programming (this is
still debatable).  vi is definetly worth learning if you are heavy into
systems administration and need a step up from pico.  vi can be found on
every unix system under the sun, and will save your ass sooner or later if
you spend enough time around unix.

However, to answer a question from a few mails ago, GNU Emacs =
Emacs.  However, there was a code fork a few years back when a company
called Lucid attempted to put a GUI on emacs.  This project is now called
XEmacs and also has some nice features.

_Drew


On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Mike McNally wrote:

> > A better book for solving your emacs problems once and for all is by
> > Linda Lamb and Arnold Robbins, ISBN 1565924266.
> > 
> > And while we are on the subject, what is the file size limit in emacs?
> 
> What's the title, let me guess:
> 	Delete This Bloated Pig of a Program
> 
> I think when many were operating in black screen mode, the ability to
> browse files, web pages, edit files, read mail, read news, and do the 
> dishes, was a great attribute.  Fast forward to current day pc use and
> we're all using multiple desktops each with several xterms open on it.
> Do I want an editor hogging memory, no.  Do I want to be able to do 
> just about everything from one xterm, well, it would be a neat trick,
> and I used emacs quite a bit for a while, but it's much easier to just
> have multiple xterms.  Now that I think about it, I liked emacs a lot
> but it's a lot easier to manage multiple xterms than multiple virual
> terms... 'cause you can see 'em, that makes them easier for using as 
> references.  I like vim.
> 
> There's a section on emacs in Unix In a Nutshell, that's a nice book,
> and in Unix For the Impatient, haven't read that for a while, and in
> Unix Power Tools, another good book.  I refer to unix in a nutshell 
> more.
> 
> emacs is like windows
> 
> mike
> 
> 
> 
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