[rescue] Re:EMACS

Paul Sladen rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed Jun 27 14:32:30 CDT 2001


On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, James Fogg wrote:

> The ubiquitous nature of Vi won me over. I can Vi in Solaris, Vim in LInux and
> even Vim in MS Windows. In fact, with *nix systems I don't have to do a thing
> to be able to Vi/m. If I want to EMACS (my previous weapon of choice) I have to
> add software (unless its Red Hat Linux). Its low resource requirements make it
> attractive too (ever try to EMACS on a crippled system?).

Had you been using Debian/GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) you could have typed:

  apt-get install emacs

Thats all!

Paul




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