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From: "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: "Dave Täht" <d@teklibre.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 21.4.1 support
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:21:17 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2fxapq9yq.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878wghf1xb.fsf@mahal.sjds.teklibre.org> ("Dave Täht"'s message of "Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:10:24 -0600")

d@teklibre.org (Dave Täht) writes:

> You are right, but I have found the default install of emacs to be so
> lame on so many distros for so long that I can understand why people
> have flocked to other editors. 
>
> Take, for example, the fact that no distro that I know of installs an
> emacs compatible ansi-term entry in terminfo by default. (Couple that
> with the fact that no terminal emulator I have found in emacs works as
> good as the equivalent in xterm, gnome-terminal, etc. It's really
> bugging me at the moment, actually, I'd really like to use ansi-term but
> every time I try it ends up spewing data all on the same line after a
> while. I swear I had it working well for a few days with 23.1 but then I
> went back to emacs-snapshot because I didn't want to build everything
> Emacs-snapshot did for me)
>
> Multiply by the huge number of packages required to make emacs
> competitive with eclipse, like semantic. Stir in missing-by-default
> emacs modes like Python mode.
>
> Compare with the bundled supported moduls of vim for system
> administration and basic programming tasks. Simmer,
> then run away.

For a better set of defaults (more modes and bells and whistles and a
nice extensible initialization structure), I'd recommend one of the
following...

http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit/tree

or my preferred versions of the above

http://github.com/eschulte/emacs-starter-kit
http://eschulte.github.com/emacs-starter-kit/

cheers -- Eric

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-15  1:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-14 17:45 Emacs 21.4.1 support Jing Su @ Gmail
2009-09-14 18:59 ` Dave Täht
2009-09-14 20:15   ` tycho garen
2009-09-15  1:10     ` Dave Täht
2009-09-15  1:21       ` Eric Schulte [this message]
2009-09-14 19:13 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-09-14 20:03   ` Andrew Stribblehill
2009-09-14 22:35   ` Leo
2009-09-14 23:08     ` Carsten Dominik

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