From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Bensen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: info files Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:33:38 -0600 Organization: Prairienet, The Community Network For East Central Illinois Message-ID: References: <1162305684.424756.146690@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1162317502.970352.30960@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162341629 11857 80.91.229.2 (1 Nov 2006 00:40:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 00:40:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 01 01:40:26 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gf49Z-0003uq-GW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:40:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gf49X-0002T0-Qr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:40:23 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.prairienet.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: slip-76.prairienet.org Original-X-Trace: wildfire.prairienet.org 1162341038 7782 192.17.3.96 (1 Nov 2006 00:30:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: newsmgr@prairienet.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 00:30:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051201) In-Reply-To: <1162317502.970352.30960@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142827 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38446 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe wrote: > I see. People from the corner of the world near Slackware tend to like > "minimalism" as a result they tend not to use Emacs Really? I thought Slackers were the smartest Linux hackers so they would use the smartest editor. :) > info. (Understand this isn't a direct allegation against Zenwalk, it's > just been something I've noticed in other Slackware derivatives). > Slackware itself supports Emacs reasonably though. I'm not entirely happy with ZW, so I may try Slack. Minimalism in ZW includes a lack of install options, lots of missing fonts, no texinfo, nonfunctioning sound, and not the greatest online support in the world. Oh, well. At 400MB, it's a convenient download.