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- From: johnf@uhheph.phys.hawaii.edu (John Flanagan)
- Subject: Re: C Programmer's Editor of Choice?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.020544.8188@news.Hawaii.Edu>
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- References: <147pqfINNoij@agate.berkeley.edu>> <ACHOW.92Jul20104309@cad093.scdt.intel.com> <1992Jul23.191613.2338@sol.cs.wmich.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 02:05:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.191613.2338@sol.cs.wmich.edu> meshkin@sol.cs.wmich.edu (The Hidden) writes:
- >achow@cad093.scdt.intel.com (Abel Chow ~) writes:
- >
- >>There's the Amiga version of GNU Emacs which does (almost) everything
- >
- >I agree! It does everything but write the code for you, BUT it is very
- >slow to start! I downloaded that one, unpacked it, then spend the next
- >minute staring in horror as it loaded gobs of data from my HD before giving
- >me a nice standard emacs screen. If you never make mistakes and have to
- >reboot your machine (thanks CBM, for your wonderful exception handler!)
- >it's great, but I usually use either vi, or MG if I want to be emacsy.
-
- I run full-blown emacs from my WBStartup, iconified, and it's
- acceptably fast to load on a 12 MHz 68020 with a _slow_ hard drive
- (like 150KB/s) -- maybe 10 seconds at most. (I imagine it would be
- horrifying on a 68000, but even my machine is fairly pokey by today's
- standards.) This way I always have the "kitchen sink" icon lying
- around on my workbench for whenever I want instant access to emacs,
- and I can always kill it when I need to do something memory-intensive,
- like 3D Maple plots.
-
- If I were developing C code more regularly on my machine, then the
- extra 10 seconds at boot time could get aggravating, since I would be
- rebooting far more frequently. But then I'd switch to MG -- better to
- reprogram the computer than to reprogram my fingers.
-
- So I guess this is a "me too," more or less; I don't use vi.
-
- P.S. -- Anyone come up with an "M-x compile" replacement for GNUemacs
- on the Amiga?
-
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