"Dean Michael C. Berris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > too much of your very little resources. why not explore other text > editors like vi and nano? i think they're more lightweight than > emacs.
The thing with things like vi and nano is that, well, they're just editors - you'll have to install other programs to read and write mail, browse the Web, do other stuff... ;) You can do all of those things within Emacs, which means - you only need to learn one general set of keystrokes - you can easily mix information from different places - you can customize everything to an insane extent Who needs mc? I can do my directory management in Emacs. I can browse (and edit!) files inside an archive, transparently read gzipped files (no more lesspipe/lessfile or zless for me!), execute commands on tagged files, and do all sorts of funky things. Plus... ummm... Emacs is really cute? I'm sorry, my stripes are showing. <grin> -- Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Ateneo CS faculty geekette interests: emacs, gnu/linux, wearables, teaching compsci http://richip.dhs.org/~sachac/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
