[ale] [Slightly OT] Emacs question.

[Jeff Lightner]

Actually it is on topic.  Personally I never load emacs anywhere (no
matter how much developers beg) but it is certainly a Unix/Linux utility
available in the world.  
FYI:  It is available for Unix (in fact one system I used to work on the
vendor loaded emacs and taught me to use it for doing customizations of
their code) and that was back in the early 90s.  

The main benefit most developers tell me about when they want it is
"multiple windows" but since we can open multiple PuTTY or xterms this
has never seemed a good selling point to me.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
Michael B. Trausch
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:26 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] [Slightly OT] Emacs question.

Marvin, International Martian of Mystery wrote:
> Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> <stuff>
> 
> I just have to ask:
> 
> Why is an emacs question off-topic?  While emacs isn't exclusive to 
> linux, it is one of the premier apps/editors included in most distros.

> It would seem to me that questions about any app that runs on linux 
> would be relevant to a linux list. 
> 

I didn't think it was completely off-topic, but because it seems that
majority of the people like (g)vi(m), if I recall correctly; and vi is
truly a part of Unix-like systems (which Emacs isn't, even though the
FSF wished it were), I figured it was slightly off-topic.  It was a
highly Emacs-specific question, and I figured I would rather err on the
side of safety as opposed to not.  :-)

	-- Mike

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