Hi, This is reminder that this bug report is marked as moreinfo.
Have you found any sensible way to include Emacs intro info into debian-reference without causing information overload. Please note I have the following text which gives fair exposure to Emacs: | http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch01.en.html#_the_text_editor | | 1.4.6. The text editor | | You should become proficient in one of variants of Vim or Emacs programs | which are popular in the Unix-like system. | ... | If you chose either Emacs or XEmacs instead as your choice of the | editor, that is another good choice indeed, particularly for | programming. Emacs has a plethora of other features as well, including | functioning as a newsreader, directory editor, mail program, etc. When | used for programming or editing shell scripts, it intelligently | recognizes the format of what you are working on, and tries to provide | assistance. Some people maintain that the only program they need on | Linux is Emacs. Ten minutes learning Emacs now can save hours later. | Having the GNU Emacs manual for reference when learning Emacs is highly | recommended. Please note I have extensive section 1.3 for mc. So suggesting but not recommending mc is valid thing. Please also see: 1.4.8. Customizing vim 1.6.4. Global substitution with regular expression In these examples, vim is used. So suggesting but not recommending vim is valid thing. I think if you have equivalents of 1.4.8 and 1.6.4 using Emacs in very concise way, I can include such text for next release. (One negative of adding Emacs to dependency line is that Emacs changes package name with version transition. But it may not be so bad these days.) If you think current text is good enough, let me know too. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
