From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: srandby Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: PATH Variable Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:17:02 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1184595422.795382.260510@o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> References: <1184562801.128350.227380@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184596877 20088 80.91.229.12 (16 Jul 2007 14:41:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:41:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 16 16:41:12 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IARl8-0000Fg-6e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:41:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IARl7-0006L0-PB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:41:09 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!postnews.google.com!o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.25.57.237 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1184595422 24458 127.0.0.1 (16 Jul 2007 14:17:02 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:17:02 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=65.25.57.237; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:150142 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45727 Archived-At: Thanks for the help, I've got it working now. I'm relatively new to Emacs, but I wish I wasn't. I've used other editors through the years, but none of them compare favorably to Emacs. For a long time, I used BBEdit (a Mac editor). It is a fine editor, but change requests I've submitted to Bare Bones have mostly been ignored and it is impossible to customize. Later, I used JEdit, but getting Java to work on a Linux box is a pain and the editor is sometimes slow and buggy. Now, I'm using Emacs which I installed easily. The documentation is great, the features are fantastic, it is free software (as in liberty of course), the community is supportive, and on and on. I've seen Emacs derided on a number of forums, but those putting down Emacs must not know much of anything about it. Scott Randby