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Remove outdated information from the Emacs section of the developer's

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handbook.

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<sect2>
<title>Emacs</title>
<para>Unfortunately, &unix; systems do not come with the kind of
everything-you-ever-wanted-and-lots-more-you-did-not-in-one-gigantic-package
integrated development environments that other systems
have.
<footnote>
<para>Some powerful, free IDEs now exist, such as KDevelop
in the Ports Collection.</para>
</footnote>
However, it is possible to set up your own environment. It
may not be as pretty, and it may not be quite as integrated,
but you can set it up the way you want it. And it is free.
And you have the source to it.</para>
<para>The key to it all is Emacs. Now there are some people who
loathe it, but many who love it. If you are one of the former,
I am afraid this section will hold little of interest to you.
Also, you will need a fair amount of memory to run it&mdash;I would
recommend 8MB in text mode and 16MB in X as the bare minimum
to get reasonable performance.</para>
<para>Emacs is basically a highly customizable
<para>Emacs is a highly customizable
editor&mdash;indeed, it has been customized to the point where
it is more like an operating system than an editor! Many
developers and sysadmins do in fact spend practically all
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you to look at the source code as you step through your
program.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>You can read Usenet news and mail while your program
is compiling.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>And doubtless many more that I have overlooked.</para>
<para>And doubtless many more that have been overlooked.</para>
<para>Emacs can be installed on &os; using
the <filename role="package">editors/emacs</filename>