Emacs

[Fred]

On Thursday 26 January 2006 09:16, Tom Buskey wrote:
> On 1/26/06, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> > I will occasionally use whatever 'vi' points to on a system for things
> > like this.  However, by and large, emacs is everywhere, and loading up
> > emacs -nw in an ssh session on a remote system isn't to painful...
>
> I remember when emacs was banned on systems because of its RAM use.  Eight
> Megabytes And Constantly Swapping.
>
> What version of emacs do you prefer?  GNU or X?

GNU, just because X doesn't seem right to me. There are some things I've 
tried in X, but worked differently or not at all.  And since I run GNU in 
command-line shells *very* often, I don't see the point in using X.

-Fred