Emacs was originally designed for text terminals; although I run emacs in it's own window, I use all the keyboard controls to do things rather than point and click. You should have no probs using it in a plain text term if you know the important shortcuts.
P. On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:35, Haines Brown wrote: > Paul, > > Thanks for the explanation. > > The reason I asked is that I need to do some work on my X system while > the X system is not running, and wanted to know the capabilities of the > command prompt outside of X. > > For example, if I run emacs, I might get a text-based emacs from which > I do the work easily. Otherwise I'd have to run vi, which is far less > familiar. > > Haines > -- Paul Furness Systems Manager Steepness is an illusion caused by flat things leaning over. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
