Re: [Swarm-Support] building swarm without emacs

[Artem Baguinski]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 07:55:51AM -0600, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> Artem Baguinski wrote:
> 
> >i'm about to install 20M of a text-editor just to compile a library and my 
> >internet connection is slow and expensive :(
> >
> I would suggest getting a CD-ROM of your Linux distribution.  That way 
> you can have tools you may need on hand.
>

yeah, that could be a way, but in my Linux distribution (gentoo) the
official way to install anything is to compile from sources downloaded
from the site, precompiled binaries exist but users are discouraged from
using them (otherwise why would they use such distribution).

and i'm still curious what made emacs a tool of choice for whatever you
use it for while building swarm?