On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote:

>
>
> > Well, there's always Xemacs.
>
> Mark, I tend to agree with the pundits that say emacs might be a good
> operating system, but it needs an editor capable to being used without a 2
> year community college degree to learn how to use it.
>
> So in that sense I am clueless, and might as well stay that way since
> there are some who would want to recall my University of Hard Knocks
> degree if I did that as it would disqualify me.
>
> One of the hard and fast rules for that degree is that no education above
> public school is allowed.  And I don't even have the usual 12 years worth
> of that.  Got a G.E.D. though, just for the hell of it. I'd taken the test
> because the wife, who has a degree in music, felt bad that she couldn't
> introduce me as a such and such to her college buddies, and I didn't hear
> for a couple weeks so I collared the test admin about it, and his reply
> was "Why do you care, you were just doing it for the exercise, weren't
> you?"
>
> Got it in the mail a few days later. ;-)  Sometimes you need to nudge the
> sleeping dog & let him know you are still there.
>

Eh, if you're just using Xemacs as a simple GUI editor it's no more
complicated or easier than gedit or geany,  It is a hell of a lot more
powerful than those two if you really want to use it's capabilities though.

Mark
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