Re: emacs for everything?

[Alan Mackenzie]

Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu> wrote on Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:24:57
-0600:

>   What _you_ are missing on X is the benefit of having Emacs
>   occupying the _whole_ screen with an optimal font, without
>   distractions from window borders, mice, scroll-bars, menus,
>   task-bars, wine-bars, tool-bars, crow-bars, and what ever else
>   glaziers clutter your screen up with.

> He might be but _I'm_ not -- check out the ratpoison window manager.
> (And if you like my posted emacs configuration, which gets rid of
> all the googahs you mentioned.)

Heh!  I use ratpoison for running a web browser in, and occasionally for
reading files.pdf (YUCK!).

> As for why I prefer to use X, it is because there are more modifiers
> available in an emacs running under X than in an emacs running in
> the terminal.

You mean, key-modifiers like C-M-<right>, right?  I've got all those on
the console, too.

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