Russ Pitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have always disliked emacs, so much so that when the install programs > loaded it I dumped it out as soon as I got to the root prompt, right from > years ago when I first started in linux.
emacs is simply a great editor. A lot of people are put off at first by it's complexity and memory foot-print size but once you get the hang of it, vi and other editors become a real drag to use. > So emacspeak seems the best application and I see "Six" versions of > emacs/xemacs in sid with a bazillion add-ons. Its worse than KDE or Gnome. > > Do I really need to download all of them or is there a smaller set that > would cover simple needs. I like just standard emacs - not xemacs. Regular emacs works great with X but it's not as flashy as xemacs. Other than that, you'd just need the dependencies of emacspeak but beyond that, I can't think of anything you simply must need. You probably *don't* want the Lisp sources right away (emacs20-el); they're great to have later on but in the beginning stages things like that might be too complex. The Lisp sources that are compiled are a must, however, and I imagine that is part of the base package. Uhm.. emacs20 emacsen-common That appears to be it but I do not have emacspeak installed. You may want to install the emacs documentation. Emacs comes with a tutorial and I suggest you begin with that to learn the key-bindings. Regards, Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
