<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Damon L. Chesser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:damon@damtek.com">damon@damtek.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 18:00 -0500, <a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a> wrote:<br>
> On 02/08/2012 05:48 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> > (stands and prepares for battle)<br>
> ><br>
> > EMACS requires a bazillion pieces to use on rhel because of it's (EMACS)<br>
> > design as a swiss-army-knife approach to system everything. In other<br>
> > distros, they hide all the pieces from you by just statically compiling<br>
> > in all the EMACS fluff bits.<br>
><br>
> Not true; at the very least, Debian and Ubuntu have an alternative build<br>
> that doesn't pull in GUI stuff. (Granted, I haven't had the chance to<br>
> check if this is the case for CentOS yet.)<br>
><br>
> Emacs can be built very minimally and yet still be extremely powerful.<br>
> In fact, the GUI stuff is completely optional at build-time and<br>
> relatively new as far as Emacs features go. Most everything is non-GUI<br>
> and comes with it in the form of LISP code (heck, these days it's<br>
> essentially a core written in C, with the most of the editor's logic<br>
> written in byte-compiled Emacs LISP itself).<br>
><br>
> > EMACS is for programmers whose systems never fail. Vi(m) is for admins<br>
> > and programmers who know better.<br>
><br>
> Emacs is for everybody. System administrators, programmers, whoever.<br>
> Especially and particularly the lazy, like myself. I do so very much<br>
> hate doing the same thing more than once, and I especially hate having<br>
> to worry about formatting code or performing repeated non-regexp<br>
> transformations on a region, a file, or a set of files... I only dislike<br>
> LISP slightly less than that. ;-)<br>
<br>
</div>Cool-aide anybody?<br></blockquote><div><br>chugged, not sipped.<br><br>poor mike. he had such promise, too. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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/me ducks<br>
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><br>
> --- Mike<br>
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consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as
they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the
outcome.<br>- <i><i><i><i>2011 Noam Chomsky<br><br><a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a><br></i></i></i></i><br>