Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu!bob From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Del vs BackSpace in Xemacs Message-ID: Date: 24 Apr 89 19:37:40 GMT References: <44000011@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 41 In-reply-to: leein@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu's message of 22 Apr 89 02:12:00 GMT In article <44000011@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> leein@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu writes: 1. First, which editor is the best? I want a full featured editor. You're asking a basically religious question :-) You'll just have to get several and try them out. There are (1) gnuemacs called xemacs, (am I right? I did not get the software yet.), When you make GNU Emacs, it calls itself `xemacs' in the source/build directory and installs itself as `emacs'. And there's an editor in there somewhere too :-) (2) vi, Has the advantage of ubiquity. That means it's always there when you need to edit src/config.h to bring up GNU Emacs for the first time :-) (3) Navigator editor on Smalltalk-80, Reputed to be very nice in its environment, but I haven't used it. May be inappropriate for general-purpose work in a mostly-UNIX world. and finally (4) xedit. xedit is a reasonable demonstration of X toolkit functions in the context of a text editor. IMHO, it doesn't have the power and flexibility to be useful as a day-to-day workhorse editing tool. 2. On an rlogined system I usually use plain (since I can't use the mouse) gnuemacs. Can I use mouse with xemacs under xterm? I understand if the host system allow me to use my system as an X terminal, I might use one. You can compile GNU Emacs to run as an independent X client - that is, managing its own resources and its own interaction with the server. It knows about mouse button hits and can do menus and everything. As an X client, it can run on one system and display on any other where there's a network connection betwixt the two - just like you may have wanted to use xterm.