On 14 June 2017 at 17:05, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > Richard Melville wrote: > > So as not to waste anybody's time, I would just like to report that a web >> search finally answered my question. Indeed, my understanding was >> correct: the latest emacs (v25.2) supports ImageMagick v6 but not v7. >> > > Let me point out that IM is an optional dependency of emacs. If you don't > know why you need it, then don't use it when building emacs. >
I was always a vim user, but I've been using emacs for about a year and I really like it. I haven't used emacs with ImageMagick before, but I'm interested to see exactly what can be done with it. I'm installing ImageMagick-6..9.8-10 and emacs-25.2 (as in the book). I'll probably get around to it tomorrow, if I have the time. > > It's been many years since I used emacs regularly. I originally started > using it because of the deficiencies in vi (not vim). Without a formal > comparison, my impression is the the capabilities of emacs and vim have > converged. The main differences are the set of keystrokes you are used to > using to accomplish a specific task. > As I say, in the past I've always been a vim user. I avoided emacs because it always seemed as though it was trying to be all things to all people. It never seemed quite unix enough: one tool to do one job. However, I started using it last year in earnest and I'm impressed with the power of it (particularly the number of additional modules). I'm probably unusual in that I always have both vim and emacs installed and use them both. I know that there are a few lightweight editors out there, but because I'm used to vim I tend to use it for quick edits to files and reserve emacs for large projects. Richard > >
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