On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Paul wrote: > Hi, > > At the last meeting Andrew told me how much he loves emacs... so I have > decided to learn it. Which should I use, GNU emacs or the other one? And any > emacs tips to a complete beginner would also be helpful.
Basically you are entering the territory of that most bitter of religuous wars. The wars between true believers of the same faith.... Of course, GNU Emacs is the True Emacs and wimpy XEmacsers should all be burnt at the stake... :-) Seriously though, I use gnu/emacs not xemacs as I don't like to lose screen real estate to kludgy icons. I hate icons. The markings on the "ctrl" key of my keyboard always wears out first. Emacs is an editor to live in. The more intensively you use it, the more it repays use and study of its features and abilities. XEmacs may be a lower cost entry for one who isn't planning on "Living there", but I suspect Gnu Emacs is the way to go if emacs is where you live every day. Hints : You have not yet started to learn Emacs if... You ever leave emacs to ... * Compile * Run gdb * Run a shell command. * Use a calculator. The sure sign of some one not as yet "grokking" emacs is the click to raise an xterm, run gcc or make and then click to raise emacs and resolve the syntax issues. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand Good Ideas: Ruby - http://www.ruby-lang-org - The best of perl,python,scheme without the pain. Valgrind - http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/ - memory debugger for x86-GNU/Linux Free your books - http://www.bookcrossing.com
