Subject: Re: xemacs and netbsd
To: None <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
From: Ken Nakata <kenn@synap.ne.jp>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/25/1998 07:05:00
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998 19:58:33 +0100, Hauke Fath wrote:
> At 16:15 Uhr +0100 24.11.1998, Ken Nakata wrote:
> 
> >You could try the package xemacs-20 (or whatever the latest version in
> >pkgsrc), although my experience with xemacs-20 is less than
> >satisfactory.  Especially it would die on me with "Memory Exhausted"
> >message after certain amount of normal use.  I just gave up on it and
> >went back to emacs-20, instead.
> 
> 20.4 has been rock solid for me, definitely more so than 19.16, and it's
> faster, too.

Hmm, OK, I'm going to give it a try.

> If you run it via gnuclient (or the editclient.sh script), it is workable
> even on a IIci.

How is it different from the, ur, "normal" execution?

> But that's how it is with editors. Anyone using vi, pico, ed, WORDSTAR 3,
> EDLIN out there?

Vi, yes.  At least in the single-user mode.  But I have to admit I
can't use ed!  I guess I'm not a true UNIX hacker afterall ;-)

Ken