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Re: New Emacs with GTK!


From: Jason Earl
Subject: Re: New Emacs with GTK!
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 19:14:43 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux)

"Daniel R. Anderson" <dan@mathjunkies.com> writes:

> <snip>
>
>> I never saw anybody editing in the console seriousely. 
>> Therefore I don't believe that too many of people do editing in the 
>> console.  This people may use zile or something.
>
> </snip>
>
> I routinely ssh into a number of different boxes from Windows.  The
> console is the ONLY way to use emacs. I suspect there are a number
> of others out there like me who are forced to use the console
> version now and then.  And I think most of us would hate having to
> learn vi just to edit in the console.

Consoles are good.  In fact, I was finally able to kick my XEmacs
habit thanks to the fact that Emacs can colorize text on the console.
However, I use Gnome on Linux, and I like the idea of Emacs using GTK
for its widgets.  That's going to look sharp.

Jason


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