On Friday 23 September 2005 11:54, Amit Aronovitch wrote:
> Long time since I last saw a *nix with no emacs whatsoever...
>

Guess none of us is an Emacs fan, or needs it for sys admin.

> nano is too limited,
> scp'ing files around is too much hassle,
> vi - ok I suppose, but just does not feel at home for me
> Sorry, but with emacs, my fingers seem to do the editing themselves -
> it's hard to teach them different keys after all these years :-)
>
> So, if you have root, please 'apt-get install emacs21-nox'
>

Done. GNU Emacs installed. Note that there's alos jmacs which is joe's 
emulation of Emacs. I also recall jove (= "Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs") 
from my days. MicroEmacs seems a completely different beast.[1]

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish

[1] - But the Linus uses it:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/linus/

:-)

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