> "Carel" == Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Carel> And to really speed up things, you could even use the -vanilla flag
Carel> next to -nw to tell xemacs to forget about all those nifty packages
Carel> that take all this time to load.
Better to let it load it all up..
> "jsja" == john s jacobs anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jsja> Oh, no, I agree -- that's why I tend toward vi in those
jsja> situations. However, over the weekend I've been playing with
jsja> gnuserv/gnuclient in
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 11:20:04PM -0400, Chris Gray wrote:
>
> pidof xemacs && gnuclient -q $1 || xemacs -nw $1
This will only work if you are the one and only user ever to use xemacs.
So you better use (analog to what was shown on the list a couple of days ago):
$ fuser -sn tcp $((UID+21490
> "Chris" == Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chris> People always get lots of responses from queries like this,
Chris> but this seems like the obvious way to do it:
Chris> pidof xemacs && gnuclient -q $1 || xemacs -nw $1
Yep, that works. In the hopes of saving a newbie or two so
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 10:58:08PM -0400, john s jacobs anderson wrote:
> Okay, that could work -- but I'm too forgetful to remember if there's
> already an XEmacs process running -- anybody have a shell script that
> will execute the following pseudocode?
>
> if there's an XEmacs process
> "Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Peter> Here's why I use gnuserv all the time. Say I in a shell in a
Peter> directory called
Peter> /deb/potato/home/rhogee/deb/gri/CVS/gri/doc/cookbook and I
Peter> want to edit a file in Emacs. I could go in Emacs and type
Here's why I use gnuserv all the time.
Say I in a shell in a directory called
/deb/potato/home/rhogee/deb/gri/CVS/gri/doc/cookbook
and I want to edit a file in Emacs. I could go in Emacs and type
C-x C-f and then type in (or cut/paste) the whole path. That's
arduous.
Instead, if I want to edi
> "Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Peter> Felix Natter wrote:
>> john s jacobs anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > Oh, I'm with you -- I'll often use vi for small edits, even if
>> > I have XEmacs open on another desktop, just because doing the
>> >
> "Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Peter> Felix Natter wrote:
>> john s jacobs anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > Oh, I'm with you -- I'll often use vi for small edits, even if I have
>> > XEmacs open on another desktop, just because doin
Felix Natter wrote:
> john s jacobs anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Oh, I'm with you -- I'll often use vi for small edits, even if I have
> > XEmacs open on another desktop, just because doing the edit 'in-line'
> > in an xterm fits my work-flow better. Again, it's all about choosing
john s jacobs anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Oh, I'm with you -- I'll often use vi for small edits, even if I have
> XEmacs open on another desktop, just because doing the edit 'in-line'
> in an xterm fits my work-flow better. Again, it's all about choosing
> the right tool for the job.
y
> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jonathan> I think the best comment over the emacs thing was; someone
Jonathan> said "it's not an editor, it's a virtual machine" Now that
Jonathan> makes great sense! Now someone needs to come up with
Jonathan> something as clever
Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> I think the best comment over the emacs thing was; someone said "it's
not an
> editor, it's a virtual machine" Now that makes great sense! Now
someone
> needs to come up with something as clever to explain vi... :)
It's just an editor?
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 08:44:35AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote:
> > I'm not against thinking, don't get me wrong. I actually *program* for
> > fun.
> > I just like to focus my mental energies. i.e. why mount; cp; umount when I
> > can mcopy? Why type:
> >
> > mv ~/Mail/Debian ~/Mail/Debian-`date +%Y%
> "Oki" == Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Oki> On 5 May 2000, john s jacobs anderson wrote:
>> The point is, emacsen are designed to be *modular*. If you don't
>> want to load those things, then don't load them
Oki> I'd like to have rmail "module" to be able to use an smtp and
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Jonathan Markevich wrote:
> An OS to make you think? Who says that's its job?
Well, maybe it's not its job, but I think Linux makes you think or makes
you (force you) to do things in thinking-mode. Some people like to do that
and some don't.
Of course, new distros come wi
On 5 May 2000, john s jacobs anderson wrote:
> Agreed. How ever, as with several of the other posters, you've
> apparently felt the need not just to opine that (X)Emacs isn't
> newbie-friendly[1], but to make several other statements that indicate
> that you haven't actually used any emacsen for
> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jonathan> Let me begin by saying I don't plan to prolong this thread
Jonathan> after saying my piece. Insert smilie here.
me too
Jonathan> Personally, I agree. The issue brought up was not one of
Jonathan> "is Emacs p
On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 02:13:19PM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote:
Let me begin by saying I don't plan to prolong this thread after saying my
piece. Insert smilie here.
I don't like the reaction from most sides about this. It bodes ill for
Linux -- for free software users in general.
Let's start
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