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From: Sarah Bernadette Kelly <sbk98 at uow.edu.au>
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Didn't mean to "dismiss Emacs out of hand". I must admit that the editor
I was introduced to was vi, and hence I'm mildly biased :) Oh, and I
really don't like control sequences. I get RSI in my little finger :)

What is the BBDB? Where can I find it? etc etc

Sarah

On 8 Oct 2001, Jason Henry Parker wrote:

> [ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and  ]
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> Sarah Bernadette Kelly <sbk98 at uow.edu.au> top-posted, over-quoted and
> wrote:
> 
> > On 8 Oct 2001, Jason Henry Parker wrote:
> > > > [1] My GNU Emacs custom startup file runs to (clickety click) 177k.
> > > $ du -sh .emacs
> > > 12k     .emacs
> > 177k startup? BLOATWARE! *grin*
> 
> Large parts of that are comments; the true size of the file is more
> like 7800 bytes.  At that size it's smaller than the minimum file size
> on some of my filesystems.
> 
> People more interested in discussing Emacs than dismissing it
> out-of-hand might find it interesting to examine the BBDB; it hooks
> into all major Emacs news- and mailreaders, watching in the background
> for messages and auto-adjusting a pretty decent address-book database
> as it goes.
> 
> The LaTeX connection?  M-x bbdb-print renders a subset of the address
> book (basically anyone for whom you have a phone number or postal
> address, by default) into a quite attractive TeX document.  I'm busy
> filling out mine now for printing before leaving for an overseas
> holiday.
> 
> jason
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