[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#633652: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

>>>>> "r" == rdiezmail-emacs  <rdiezmail-emacs at yahoo.de> writes:
r> The console mode has been a shock. There is no mouse at all. I cannot
r> navigate the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and unfriendly.
r> But, worst of all, some key combinations do not work well.
But that's the way it must be here on Debian, if you are root.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633652
My question is how do all those high powered Debian Developers cope?
Don't tell me they don't use emacs.
Or not as root.
Not even
when
administering their system?