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Re: Elisp addiction not as bad in light of Linux forkoholism
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H. Dieter Wilhelm |
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Re: Elisp addiction not as bad in light of Linux forkoholism |
Date: |
Sun, 30 Nov 2014 20:27:43 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:
...
> In theory, yes. In practice, this is more difficult. I mean, Emacs on
> Ubuntu should be as simple as sudo apt-get install emacs; but then, in
> most points in time, this got you an ancient version. The same with
> TeX, and other things. So step by step you install more and more things
> manually, and then why not get Gentoo?
...
> Debian might be a good idea, but I feel more and more inclined towards
> Fedora (or Arch, on days I'm feeling more bold).
The upcoming Debian (Jessie, Debian 8) is now in freeze and has
emacs-24.4. By chance I just had to install it and if you are
interested I can give you a quick installation guide privately.
>> Also remember that the Debian fork Ubuntu has been
>> forked many times for similarly questionable reasons:
>> Kubuntu (to have it in KDE instead of GNOME), Xubuntu
>> (ditto Xfce), and so on. (Sometimes I think the WM
>> developers do that just to market their software.)
>
> Yes, I even used some of them for some time. My goal is to set up a
> decent tiling WM (preferably StumpWM, maybe Awesome), so I'm not really
> interested in this KDE/Gnome/Unity/whatever dispute. (The main goal is
> to have Emacs occupy the whole screen, without these stupid decorations,
> and get rid of the mouse/touchpad. I hardly ever use anything but
> Emacs, a terminal, Evince and Firefox or Chrome anyway.)
I'm using Emacs mostly in full-screen mode so, thankfully the desktop
stuff (xfce in my case) matters less and less. I'm also getting used to
eww, the fast text browser, terminal-mode and doc-view-mode (with
auto-revert-mode for pdfs) more and more.
Dieter
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Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany
Re: Elisp addiction not as bad in light of Linux forkoholism, Nikolay Kudryavtsev, 2014/11/30
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