Re: New Emacs with GTK!

[Niels Freimann]

Hi David,

I am running emacs -nw as an perfect vi replacement.
Therefore there is only one text editor, emacs, on my
machine. However I don't believe that in the year 2003 
when most users running linux on fast ia32 machines a tty 
emacs is the future. Its rather a *nostalgia* for older users
like we are. Furthermore my argument was removing 
anything else than gtk2 as X11 target, and creating two 
separate branches for tty and gtk2, sharing common code
via libraries.  An tty and an gtk2 emacs thats enough. 
Otherwise the code base will become too large.

-Niels

On Friday 18 April 2003 06:13, David Combs wrote:
> In article <87vfyai2ur.fsf@wassern.consult-meyers.com>,
>
> A. L. Meyers  <spamnjet@yahoo.de> wrote:
> >Don't be so sure, Niels
> >
> >
> >Long live the text console!
>
> Indeed!
>
> Not that I've needed to yet, but if I've got
> the computer (solaris/sparc) down in non-gui,
> single-user mode, I can still run emacs -- thank god
>
> Of course, until Sun appeared, *all* of us who were
> using emacs were using it on eg vt-100s -- at eg
> 1200 baud.  (then 2400, then 9600)
>
> (Running on DEC 20's, under "twenex" os)
>
> (That was when emacs was still written in teco)
>
> I cannot imagine rms *ever* removing non-gui ability
> from emacs.  Sure hope not!
>
>
> David
>
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