[dundee] Text editor decision question

[Rick Moynihan]

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2009/7/1 Rick Moynihan <rick.moynihan at gmail.com>:
> 2009/7/1 Kris Davidson <davidson.kris at gmail.com>:
>> Okay seems I've fallen prey to my own annoyance and not read all of
>> Ricks e-mail (I thought it was a repost of the first one you sent
>> mentioning Org mode) and blindly replied, much of what you mention is
>> what I liked the look of.
>>
>> I heard mention on some blog somewhere that daemon mode messes with
>> colour schemes, any truth to that?
>
> Yes, I think this is an issue currently, though it looks like it can
> be resolved:
>
> http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/03/color-theming.html
>
> I've not personally made the leap to run Emacs in daemon (detached)
> mode, though I intend to do this when I get time.  Instead I run my
> primary (windowed) Emacs session as an emacs-server, and use
> emacs-client (aliased to ec) to connect to it.  This isn't quite the
> same, as the file opens in your servers emacs frame rather than the
> terminal emacsclient was launched from but it does largely fulfill the
> same use-case.  There are no problems with font-locking in this setup.
>
> To do this simply include the following snippet in your .emacs:
>
> ;; only start the Emacs Server if we're not in a terminal.
> (if window-system
>    (server-start))
>
> and run emacsclient from your tty...  Be sure to also checkout the
> options to emacsclient, e.g. -n etc...
>
>> I've been having a similar crisis with Git vs Bazaar, but after trying
>> Bazaar and having a few issues I'll give Git a try.
>
> Bazaar was the first distributed-scm I tried, but I quickly moved to
> git (not due to any significant flaws in bzr), I was just more
> impressed with gits blazing fast speed, and overall design... Oh, and
> the majority of OSS projects I interact with also adopted git, so it
> made sense there too.  I am incredibly happy with git, and have no
> reason to look at any other scm.  It is an awesome tool!

Oh before I forget (too late?) I have a rather large collection of
emacs related links here:

http://delicious.com/InkyHarmonics/emacs

R.