From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sacha Chua Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs or xemacs? Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:35:59 +0800 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87n0qohkz4.fsf@sachac.linuxboxen.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031740932 4862 127.0.0.1 (11 Sep 2002 10:42:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:42:12 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17p4wj-0001G5-00 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:42:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17p4wo-0002eD-00; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 06:42:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17p4w2-0002Vi-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 06:41:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17p4vz-0002VB-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 06:41:24 -0400 Original-Received: from pusit.admu.edu.ph ([202.138.180.130]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17p4vy-0002UU-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 06:41:23 -0400 Original-Received: from pusit.admu.edu.ph (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32BFE1B51C for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:41:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from cersa.admu.edu.ph (cersa.admu.edu.ph [10.2.53.1]) by pusit.admu.edu.ph (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E3111B511 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:41:19 +0800 (PHT) Original-Received: from sachac.linuxboxen.org (unknown [192.168.0.7]) by cersa.admu.edu.ph (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0CFE1C11D for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:43:06 +0800 (PHT) Original-Received: from sacha by sachac.linuxboxen.org with local (masqmail 0.2.11) id 17p4ql-5GR-00 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:35:59 +0800 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Klaus Berndl's message of "11 Sep 2002 10:34:06 +0200") Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1290 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1290 Klaus Berndl writes: > AFAIK this not correct: XEmacs has this nifty net-installer ported from Cygwin > to the needs of XEmacs whereas GNU Emacs must still be installed by > downloading one big archive (regardless of source-distrib or precompiled > binaries), extracing it, reading the READMe and so on... apt-get install emacs21 .. and then apt-get install any of the Emacs packages I want, or download the .els or source archives and play with them myself. I love Debian. =) I understand that the binary distribution of Emacs is also easy to install if you're using RPMs. -- Sacha Chua - 4 BS CS Ateneo geekette interests: emacs, gnu/linux, wearables, teaching compsci