Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

[Sir Gallantmon]

I can't seem to invoke emacs even when I have it installed. Every time I do,
it says the command isn't found. I had to go and find it and add a symlink
to the $HOME/bin folder so that it would work... I know that shouldn't be
happening...

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Braden McDaniel <braden at endoframe.com>wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 14:48 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 16:06 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > > Let's say I want to do software development. I make an appropriate
> selection
> > > when intalling Fedora 12. What editor am I expected to use?
> > >
> >
> > The development group in comps does not list any editor by default.
> > Those come from the Editors group.  It does however list a number of
> > optional emacs packages one could pick from when fine tuning the group
> > selection.
> >
> > For better or worse, the default editor in the editors group is
> > vim-enhanced.
>
> This probably has something to do with the fact that a variety of
> programs default to invoking vi if VISUAL is not set.
>
> I'm an emacs user who's nearly completely useless in vi.  But, really...
> it just doesn't matter if emacs isn't installed by default.  If you want
> it, you know how to get it.  And let's be frank: emacs is not something
> that a user who is unaware of it might stumble into and suddenly find
> himself blindingly productive. (Nor, for that matter, is vi.)
>
>
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