Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!alchemy!ruunfs!muts From: muts@fysak.fys.ruu.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: EMACS ??? <---> VI !!! Message-ID: Date: 30 May 91 21:18:04 GMT References: <1991May30.124131.4679@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: usenet@fys.ruu.nl (News Control) Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht Lines: 25 ury@mosque.huji.ac.il (ury segal) writes: >Look. EMACS is too complex. I tryed to find How to get the current line >number for 1/4 hour And I couldn't. SO I USE VI ! _Much_ better for me >right now. And emacs don't let me use my mouse (I'm running X), and epoch >let me, but not on the standart way. >I know that EMACS is great, have meny meny features. SO WHAT. I can't >use them easily. No problem. It depends on what you do. If you do only simple things, you don;t need a complex editor whith many features. But if you write programs often it sure is worthwhile to spend 1 full day reading and practicing the entire manual. By the way the mouse can be used for sure, but you must have emacs in an X-window, not in an xterm. >--ury >(By the way, How you get the current line number ?) No idea :-) Never needed that until now. But look in the glossary of the -- Peter Mutsaers email: muts@fys.ruu.nl Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht muts@fysak.fys.ruu.nl Princetonplein 5 tel: (+31)-(0)30-533880 3584 CG Utrecht, Netherlands