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- From: achow@cad093.scdt.intel.com (Abel Chow ~)
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- Subject: GNU Emacs vs. the world . . . (was Re: C Programmer's Editor of Choice?)
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- Date: 24 Jul 92 01:35:44 GMT
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- In-reply-to: meshkin@sol.cs.wmich.edu's message of 23 Jul 92 19:16:13 GMT
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- Oh, boy. An GNU Emacs vs. the world thread . . .
-
- In article <1992Jul23.191613.2338@sol.cs.wmich.edu> meshkin@sol.cs.wmich.edu (The Hidden) writes:
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- > 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.
-
- Hm. I don't find loading time to be a problem (and I've got an
- A500/590 with 3 MB). It sounds like you didn't run the undumped
- version. After you dump the Emacs executable (so it doesn't have to
- go through the initialization every time), Emacs loads pretty quickly.
- BTW, which version did you get?
-
- Even though I have a lowly 68000 processor, I find that the user
- interface of Emacs more than compensates for the lack of speed. I've
- got the Emacs keybindings engrained into my fingertips.
-
- I'm wondering how many Amiga users have actually used GNU Emacs. I
- have met MANY people who claim to use Emacs but don't even know how to
- call up the online help (for those of you who don't know, type ^H i
- [or Undo i on the Amiga]). It just saddens the heart to see such
- power go to waste. <sigh> But . . . Emacs is actually quite new on
- the Amiga scene so there's hope. (However, the documentation is quite
- hefty for those who are used to short utilities for the Amiga (kill a
- tree)).
-
- I have to admit that Emacs does have a slight learning curve, but once
- I got over the slope, there's no going back to any other editor
- (though I use vi for only short jobs). It's like UNIX (OK, AmigaDOS).
- Once you've learned how to use it, you never want to go back to MS-DOS
- again! I admit that Emacs is huge, but when you've got three megs of
- memory, most of the memory is just sitting there doing nothing (at
- least for me). Just keep in mind that Emacs is an editing
- environment, not just a text editor. (Golly, is this really me?)
-
- For smaller editing jobs, I use MG (which is less than 100 KB). (I
- was going to update it for 2.0 but when the Real Thing came out, oh,
- well).
-
- I encourage all C programmers to just try out the C-mode in GNU Emacs
- (the other Emaxen (?) can't handle it). Once I learned how to use it,
- I'll never go back . . . (Don't forget to try the Meta-; . . . er . .
- . Alt-; function.)
-
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- > We have suffered severe Chris Meshkin ====\= -==___==-
- > brain damage. Western Michigan University ___\___/ /_
- > Please send help to: meshkin@sol.cs.wmich.edu \_WMU_1701_>-
-
- Abel
- (BTW, I only work at Intel.)
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