[ale] I can see why RHEL people don't use Emacs...

[Jim Kinney]

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Damon L. Chesser <damon at damtek.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 18:00 -0500, mike at trausch.us wrote:
> > On 02/08/2012 05:48 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > > (stands and prepares for battle)
> > >
> > > EMACS requires a bazillion pieces to use on rhel because of it's
> (EMACS)
> > > design as a swiss-army-knife approach to system everything. In other
> > > distros, they hide all the pieces from you by just statically compiling
> > > in all the EMACS fluff bits.
> >
> > Not true; at the very least, Debian and Ubuntu have an alternative build
> > that doesn't pull in GUI stuff.  (Granted, I haven't had the chance to
> > check if this is the case for CentOS yet.)
> >
> > Emacs can be built very minimally and yet still be extremely powerful.
> > In fact, the GUI stuff is completely optional at build-time and
> > relatively new as far as Emacs features go.  Most everything is non-GUI
> > and comes with it in the form of LISP code (heck, these days it's
> > essentially a core written in C, with the most of the editor's logic
> > written in byte-compiled Emacs LISP itself).
> >
> > > EMACS is for programmers whose systems never fail. Vi(m) is for admins
> > > and programmers who know better.
> >
> > Emacs is for everybody.  System administrators, programmers, whoever.
> > Especially and particularly the lazy, like myself.  I do so very much
> > hate doing the same thing more than once, and I especially hate having
> > to worry about formatting code or performing repeated non-regexp
> > transformations on a region, a file, or a set of files... I only dislike
> > LISP slightly less than that.  ;-)
>
> Cool-aide anybody?
>

chugged, not sipped.

poor mike. he had such promise, too.

>
> /me ducks
>
>
> >
> >       --- Mike
> >
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> Damon
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