From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs for everything? Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:50:44 +0000 Organization: muc.de e.V. -- private internet access Message-ID: <4jdgnc.36.ln@acm.acm> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1100728275 19832 80.91.229.6 (17 Nov 2004 21:51:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:51:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 17 22:51:10 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CUXhl-0003f1-00 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 22:51:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CUXqa-0003tn-C3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:00:16 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.csl-gmbh.net!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!lmu.de!news.muc.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: acm.muc.de Original-X-Trace: marvin.muc.de 1100727772 61878 193.149.49.134 (17 Nov 2004 21:42:52 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news-admin@muc.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Nov 2004 21:42:52 GMT User-Agent: tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.35 (i686)) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:126707 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:22103 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:22103 Joe Corneli wrote on Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:24:57 -0600: > What _you_ are missing on X is the benefit of having Emacs > occupying the _whole_ screen with an optimal font, without > distractions from window borders, mice, scroll-bars, menus, > task-bars, wine-bars, tool-bars, crow-bars, and what ever else > glaziers clutter your screen up with. > He might be but _I'm_ not -- check out the ratpoison window manager. > (And if you like my posted emacs configuration, which gets rid of > all the googahs you mentioned.) Heh! I use ratpoison for running a web browser in, and occasionally for reading files.pdf (YUCK!). > As for why I prefer to use X, it is because there are more modifiers > available in an emacs running under X than in an emacs running in > the terminal. You mean, key-modifiers like C-M-, right? I've got all those on the console, too. -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter (like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a").