Thank you, thank you, Bryan! I now know something new. On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 06:03 PM, Bryan Forrest wrote:
> Just for clarification, I think the original question was referring to > the text editor used by many Unix programmers, emacs, as opposed to > the G4 PowerMac called the eMac. It's just another editor available > from the command line like pico or vi > > Bryan C. Forrest > Macintosh Specialist > LifeNet > http://www.lifenet.org. > > > On Oct 20, 2003, at 5:59 PM, George H. Yankey wrote: > >> I use Emac for games, Appleworks documents, E-mail, and to browse the >> internet. I use Mac Mail for e-mail and both Explorer and Safari to >> browse. Very few problems. I am running OS 10.2.6. >> George Yankey >> On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 09:29 AM, Bill Rising wrote: >> >>> On 10/20/03 8:38, Kevin Dillman wrote >>> >>>> I am interested in corresponding with anyone using emacs. If you >>>> use >>>> emacs, what all do you do with it? >>>> >>>> The documentation included in my emacs distribution on my G4 12" >>>> powerbook states that some of the functionality of emacs is not >>>> available yet on OS X (gnus for one). >>>> >>>> I use emacs for all kinds of editing, but have not yet been able to >>>> configure it to read/send e-mail or browse the web. >>>> >>>> Any insight would be greatly appreciated. >>> >>> I use emacs all the time for editing LaTeX docs and programming stats >>> packages. >>> >>> Unfortunately, I can't help you with gnus or mail, 'cuz I use it for >>> editing locally and remote (with no problems) only. >>> >>> Are you using the installed version? If so, you might want to check >>> at >>> >>> http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/ >>> >>> as this is the Mac OS X maintainer's website. >>> >>> Dunno if it offers anything more than the installed version. >>> >>> Bill >>> >>> >>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>> | be October 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. >>> >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be October 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. >> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2208 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20031021/cc893f21/attachment.bin
