Emacs is always packaged with a full docset and a tutorial. One needs to be a bit cautious when describing emacs since emacs is essentially an environment, not just an editor. From a pure text editor standpoint in contrast to vi, there is a total difference of philosophy. In contrast to vi, emacs always allows you to enter text into the current buffer (unless the document is read-only). Emacs is also a language sensitive editor, having modes for most of the major languages including C, Perl, shell scripts. Most of the time, I use emacs to edit, compile, debug, check code in and out of the source control system. (XEmacs has buttons for compiling and debugging). As noted previously, there are several email packages that can be loaded, as well as news readers. I also use emacs for html editing as there are some html extensions. I would suggest that you install GNU Emacs or XEmacs from your SuSE distribution (and install the updates from the SuSE support site) and use the internal tutorial. There are several good books on GNU Emacs, such as O'Reilly's Learning GNU Emacs. Note that for the most part GNU Emacs and XEmacs are essentially the same. On 31 Mar 2000, at 9:01, Keith Pettit wrote:
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Jerry do you know any good sites for emacs tutorials? I've never used it before. I've mainly used vi and pico but I've heard alot of good things about it
Keith
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Feldman" <Gerry.Feldman@compaq.com> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 7:16 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] not SUSE, emacs
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* I have been an emacs user for 15 years, but I prefer to use XEmacs because of the x interface. I use XEmacs at home, but GNU emacs is the only one available on my work system, which is on an isolated net.
On 31 Mar 2000, at 14:04, Francesco wrote:
Not stictly a SUSE issue but I have been considering using emacs for mail etc etc as I spend much of my time in it. Two questions really.
- Any thoughts on emacs v xemacs
- How easy (am an relative newbie) is it to configure mail for these. Am currently using kmail, via smtp.
Many thanks
Francesco
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