Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:33:09 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Emacs Problem In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20030115162008.03710ec8@pop.rcn.com> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > At 03:39 PM 1/15/2003, Scott Purcell wrote: > >Hello, > >I got ambitious during lunch and installed emacs. At the cmd line I type in emacs and all works great. > >I got one problem though, it will not quit. > > Yeah, so? What's the problem? Emacs is the end-all of software, right? It's > supposed to do everything except make your coffee in the morning, no? So > *why* would you *ever* want to quit from it? ;-) ;-) ;-) > > No flames or editor-wars, please! :-) As one of my friends would say: - It doesn't make my coffee in the morning? :-o Oh, no! What have I been drinking all these years? And, as my other friend would say: - I wish I could just boot emacs as an operating system... Igor P.S. Personally, I use vim :q No disrespect for Emacs intended. > [snip] -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/