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Re: Efficient Emacs usage?
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Lee Sau Dan |
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Re: Efficient Emacs usage? |
Date: |
24 Nov 2004 11:30:19 +0800 |
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>>>>> "FCC" == FCC <fcc509@netscape.net> writes:
FCC> I did not know about this, sounds really cool. I will try
FCC> it. My feelings toward Windows has never been very positive,
FCC> especially suffering the ordeal of typing up a descent MS
FCC> thesis under MS Word in 1995.
I did my final year project report in the same year, and I did it in
LaTeX. I think I was the only one in the class to use LaTeX. Another
classmate knew LaTeX and could use it, but chose to write his report
in Word (6.0). He regretted! Crashes, loss of data, bad-looking
output.
That was the first time I use LaTeX seriously. Before that, I used
Word 6.0, and was complaining all the time why it is so slow and the
output is so bad. Add that to the occasional (not as frequent as I
see in Win95 and later) GPF of Win 3.1. Once I've got Linux installed
(I could already use LaTeX on SUN workstations then), I switched to
LaTeX completely. No need to look back. (I did like Word Perfect 5.1
on DOS. But Word Perfect 6.0 started to get a bloated interface
similar to MS Word. So, I gave it up and switched to Word 6.0, so
that I could share files with classmates.)
FCC> But like many people I come from a DOS background, and I
FCC> have met Unix much later in my university life,
Being a computer science major, I got my first unix account in the
first year of university. (The computer centre also offered unix
accounts to all students and staff. So, I got 2 unix accounts when I
entered the university!)
FCC> and I was never able to own one (unfortunately).
I also thought I couldn't, until I learnt about Linux in late 1993.
In summer 1994, after all exams, I spared the money to upgrade my
486's RAM from 4MB to 16MB and bought an additional harddisk. Then, I
installed Slackware. I was so happy to be able to have unix on my own
PC! (I did have Minix installed for the OS course, but Minix is
really mini. Like a kids version of an OS.)
FCC> Finally there is Linux, but with no descent debugger! Let us
FCC> face it, MS Visual C/C++/Fortran IDE has a fabulous debugger
FCC> that is graphical...
Emacs is a much better IDE. And I can read my mails in it.
FCC> I agree that PCL-CVS is indispensible for software
FCC> development, and I actively use it. Good point here, thanks.
For users of subversion, there is an equivalent package that provides
a similar interface. (svn has a (CLI) user interface quite close to
CVS already.) Not bundled with Emacs, but works great!
--
Lee Sau Dan 李守敦 ~{@nJX6X~}
E-mail: danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee
- Re: Efficient Emacs usage?, (continued)
Re: Efficient Emacs usage?, Phillip Lord, 2004/11/22
Re: Efficient Emacs usage?, Marco Gidde, 2004/11/23
Re: Efficient Emacs usage?, Lee Sau Dan, 2004/11/23
- Re: Efficient Emacs usage?, FCC, 2004/11/23
- Re: Efficient Emacs usage?, Micha Feigin, 2004/11/23
- Re: Efficient Emacs usage?, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/11/23
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- Re: Efficient Emacs usage?, Lee Sau Dan, 2004/11/24
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- Re: Efficient Emacs usage?, Mathias Dahl, 2004/11/25
- Re: Efficient Emacs usage?, Phillip Lord, 2004/11/25
- Re: Efficient Emacs usage?, Mathias Dahl, 2004/11/26
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Re: Efficient Emacs usage?, John Paul Wallington, 2004/11/24