[ale] I can see why RHEL people don't use Emacs...

[Damon L. Chesser]

On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 18:00 -0500, mike at trausch.us wrote:
> On 02/08/2012 05:48 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > (stands and prepares for battle)
> > 
> > EMACS requires a bazillion pieces to use on rhel because of it's (EMACS)
> > design as a swiss-army-knife approach to system everything. In other
> > distros, they hide all the pieces from you by just statically compiling
> > in all the EMACS fluff bits.
> 
> Not true; at the very least, Debian and Ubuntu have an alternative build
> that doesn't pull in GUI stuff.  (Granted, I haven't had the chance to
> check if this is the case for CentOS yet.)
> 
> Emacs can be built very minimally and yet still be extremely powerful.
> In fact, the GUI stuff is completely optional at build-time and
> relatively new as far as Emacs features go.  Most everything is non-GUI
> and comes with it in the form of LISP code (heck, these days it's
> essentially a core written in C, with the most of the editor's logic
> written in byte-compiled Emacs LISP itself).
> 
> > EMACS is for programmers whose systems never fail. Vi(m) is for admins
> > and programmers who know better.
> 
> Emacs is for everybody.  System administrators, programmers, whoever.
> Especially and particularly the lazy, like myself.  I do so very much
> hate doing the same thing more than once, and I especially hate having
> to worry about formatting code or performing repeated non-regexp
> transformations on a region, a file, or a set of files... I only dislike
> LISP slightly less than that.  ;-)

Cool-aide anybody?

/me ducks


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