Re: Mandrake 7.1 CDs and joe

On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Andreas Schiffler wrote:

> > And some almost necessary stuff (to me, at least... joe was on the second
> > disk and didn't install by default. Argh!)
>
> We still use "joe" to develop almost anything ... right?

I use xemacs - http://www.xemacs.org. It uses a ton of disk space and
memory, but I don't care: disk space is dirt cheap, and I have 256 mb of
RAM. I've tried other editors, but there is always a feature or two
missing that I've come to depend on with xemacs. When in text mode, or
when I just want to make a quick modification to a config file, I use 'vi'
though I really should use 'joe' for that sort of thing since it is more
friendly for someone accustomed to emacs. Generally though, I fire up
xemacs, open 2 or more frames, and just leave it running all day long
while I am working on software.

Note: I do not want to start, and I will not participate in a religious
war over what text editor is best. If your favourite text editor is
meeting your needs, then cool! All I'll say is, if you want to try a very
bloated text editor with everything you could possibly want, and a million
things you don't want, xemacs is the ticket! :-)

> I think its time to petition a "joe"-kernel patch - its only 170K. Something like
> the "Magic SysReq Key". Anyone know how to do that? What's Linus's address in
> California? (So I can drive there and force that patch into the 2.4 kernel and
> don't have it rejected like ReiserFS other usefull stuff like that!) Maybe he'll
> fall for soething like: "Better joe in the kernel, as StarOffice in userland."
>
> ;-)

Evil! :-)

        -Adam

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