Re: Vowel with Umlaut

[GRAEME F ST CLAIR]

Somewhat late reply - being married (and retired), if we 
aren't in *my* Dr's office, we're in hers...

I don't think the Emacs I recovered was all that 
problematic - it's 22.3 and I only acquired it in the 
Spring.  But it was the fearful array of ctrl+this and 
alt+that in the tutorial that persuaded me the learning 
curve was going to be close to vertical.

And Notepad++ seemed to do exactly what I wanted - I might 
even revisit my earlier perl+php+sql project and take some 
mangling back out when I'm more confident with NP++...

Certainly didn't mean to start a discussion of editors!

Tx again to all, rgds, GFStC.


On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 07:29:03 +0200
 David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> "GRAEME F ST CLAIR" <address@hidden> 
> writes:
>
> > Well, I plowtered (Scottish word) around with jEdit, but 
> > didn't get
> > much where, so I recovered a Windows Emacs from backup, 
> > that I'd never
> > got round to trying, installed it and got exactly 
> > nowhere with that
> > either - like vi, "It's a Unix thang, I wouldn't 
> > understand"...
>
> "Recovering a Windows Emacs from backup" is probably not 
> the best idea
> since it is under furious development (surprisingly so 
> for a 30 year old
> piece of software) and a lot of focus is on making it 
> less of "a Unix
> thang".
>
> If you want to give it a fair try, you should install a 
> reasonably
> current version.  It won't be easier to understand, but 
> you'll be able
> to do a lot even without understanding.  Are you 
> married?
>
> --
> David Kastrup