OS X to Linux transition - Help needed!

David Dahl yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Jul 3 13:57:01 2002


I tried xemacs, but i couldnt find a howto for ssh/scp editing, i know
it is a beloved editor, but i am a wimpy ex-BBEdit user...


On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 14:02, Michael Baer wrote:
> >>>>> "David" == David Dahl <david@ddahl.com> writes:
> 
>     David> On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 23:23, Chris Ruprecht wrote:
>     >> I believe so. I'm currently running RedHat 7.3 on a company
>     >> notebook (Acer, 600 MHz) and the machine is just so much faster
>     >> then this stupid MacOS X. I HATE MacOS X - I just don't want to
>     >> live without the very good applications which are out there for
>     >> it.
>     >>
>     >> And of course, BBEdit - how could I forget? I use vim
>     >> extensively on Linux, and I really like vim - but there is no
>     >> substitue for "Open from FTP server". Can't we convince
>     >> BareBones to port it to Linux?
> 
> 
>     David> That is why i just bought quanta gold from thekompany.com
>     David> (they have 3.3 as a linuxppc binary) and supports open from
>     David> ftp.  but, it won't really run without qt3 installed, so i
>     David> will wait for my YDL 2.3 disks to use it.
> 
> Not to start any religious wars :), but if you want a free editor that
> does ftp file reads, xemacs can (I believe with the default install)
> do open from ftp. If you add tramp, you can edit files with ftp,
> rsh/rcp, or, (my favorite) ssh/scp.
> 
>     David> yeah, MacOS X is sooo slooow on my tibook 400.  its
>     David> ridiculous.  apple should at least let us turn off half of
>     David> the hoggy-drop shadow crap.
> 
> way slow on mine too. I like the idea of pdf graphics, but the current
> reality just doesn't seem worth using.
> 
> Mike
> 
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