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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users