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>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:

  >> From: Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> Newsgroups:
  >> gnu.emacs.help Date: 25 Apr 2003 16:43:43 +0100
  >>
  >> The fundamental difficulty, is I think, that there are so many
  >> possible combinations of tools.

  Eli> Right, that's what I wrote in my message as well.

And I in mine!

  >> I'm just relating my experience.

  Eli> Sure, I don't intend to argue with your experience.  I think we
  Eli> basically agree that setting this up is not easy, we just might
  Eli> disagree a bit about how hard is it.

Now that I know most of the pitfalls, its generally not too hard. I
seem to remember discovering the pitfalls was a pain though, and I
still haven't got through all of them I am sure. 

Cheers

Phil