On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 16:52, Gary C Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11 Feb 2009, at 05:59, Martin Langhoff wrote: > >> Stock F9 emacs isn't very usable on the XO screen, unfortunately. Lack >> of fonts and high dpi make it rather painful. After struggling a bit >> to get a comfy hacking/editing environment on my XOs, I ended up >> installing the precooked Xft-enabled emacs rpms, as per: >> >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Emacs >> >> and after setting a nice readable font... I'm very happy with the >> setup. >> >> Also, the XO ships with a very limited vim. yum install vim-enhanced >> has improved my part-time vim usage. > > Yea, sudo yum install of vim, git, pylint, and nethack ;-) are about > the first things I do after a clean flash of an XO I plan to develop > code on. > > --Gary > > P.S. For the record vim is 22Mb (most of which is perl), git is 3.8Mb > (shares some of the aforementioned perl), pylint is 5Mb (almost all of > that is mx), and nethack is just 1.3Mb (press ? for help).
I guess the advantage of nethack is that once you install it you don't need nor vim, nor git nor pylint anymore. Regards, Tomeu >> cheers, >> >> >> m >> -- >> [email protected] >> [email protected] -- School Server Architect >> - ask interesting questions >> - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first >> - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
