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- From: nisse@lysator.liu.se (Niels M÷ller)
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- Subject: Re: workbench-editor?
- Date: 03 Mar 1996 01:52:47 +0100
- Organization: Lysator Computer Society, Link|ping University, Sweden
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- In-reply-to: eraugust@igate1.hac.com's message of Thu, 29 Feb 1996 17:07:02
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- eraugust@igate1.hac.com (Eric R. Augustine) writes:
-
- > > > I've heard rumours about a port of emacs-19, but I haven't tried it.
- > > emacs 19.25 is on Aminet ....
- > >
- > > > I recommend it highly.
- >
- > Yah - if you have the disk space and RAM for it... Use something that
- > emulates vi if you want a Unix editor.
-
- I don't think you can compare vi to emacs like that; emacs is not
- merely an editor. I haven't bothered to learn vi, but as far as I have
- understood, it doesn't have the things I like in emacs. I'm thinking
- of things like specialized editing modes for all programming languages
- I know of, recognition of error mesage when compiling, embedded lisp,
- manual info and mail readers, etc.
-
- In fact, emacs breaks the UNIX tradition that each tool should do
- *one* thing and do it well. Emacs, with its roots in the AI labs at
- MIT, tries to do anything, and is rather succesful, imho.
-
- Emacs-18 takes about 10MB disk space, but I have squeezed it into less
- than 4 MB by placing all lisp files and documentation on an XPK:ed
- filesystem. And with 8 MB of RAM, I can run emacs, make and gcc
- simultaneously; emacs by itself takes about 1 MB to run, which isn't
- much these days.
-
- /Niels M÷ller
-