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Re: X11 Mac OS X 10.3 emacs fink: only terminal?


From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: X11 Mac OS X 10.3 emacs fink: only terminal?
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:48:40 -0500
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In article <mailman.5858.1103024787.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu> wrote:

> Why would I want to use some parochial, proprietary, monolithic,
> *nonfree* windowing system when I could use an advanced, portable,
> highly configurable free one (i.e., X11 and ratpoison ;))?  I run OS
> X, but my user experience is essentially indistinguishable from my
> experience on GNU/Linux.

If you don't care for Apple's GUI, why are you even bothering to run OS 
X instead of GNU/Linux?  It seems strange to use a Mac and then 
essentially ignore its distinguishing feature.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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