Re: [HACKERS] Crisp text editor [definitely OT]

> Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > I have been using MicroEmacs for 9 years, and have been looking for a
> > nice X editor.  I looked at Xemacs(too complex to configure), and some
> > others, but they did not have the required features.
> 
> I dunno about Xemacs, but regular GNU Emacs is no big deal to install;
> at least it wasn't last time I did it.  (I have notes from installing
> 19.34 on HPUX and SunOS, if you want 'em.)  Recent versions do menus,
> cut&paste, syntax-driven highlighting, etc.

It was easy to compile, and install, just a pain to change anything on
it.  I just couldn't understand how to do it at all.  When I asked on
IRC, someone said change Xresources to change the background color.  It
is a pain to make color changes in Xresources to make all the colors
look good together.  It just seemed obvious things you would want to
configure in an editor were not there, like tab size.


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