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- From: mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer)
- Subject: Re: GNU Emacs vs. the world . . . (was Re: C Programmer's Editor of Choice?)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
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- References: <hemmer.015x@hemmer.adsp.sub.org> <ACHOW.92Jul23183544@cad093.scdt.intel.com>
- X-NewsSoftware: Amiga Yarn 2.0, 1992/06/25 01:41:36
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- Message-ID: <mwm.1awn@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 12:55:06 PST
- Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica
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- In <ACHOW.92Jul23183544@cad093.scdt.intel.com>, achow@cad093.scdt.intel.com (Abel Chow ~) wrote:
- > 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
-
- GNU Emacs is a subset of Emacs, not the whole thing. A fair number of
- people consider the Goslings variant to be "the one true Emacs". Guess
- what - it uses Control-H to backspace, not for help. It is very
- comparable to GNU Emacs in terms of size, functionality and features
- (i.e. - it's got more of any than you really want :-).
-
- In additions, there are minor variants available for most platforms
- that include enough of an extensions language that RMS wouldn't object
- to them being called emacs.
-
- In other words, it's possible for someone to be *very* familiar with
- emacs, but have never used GNU emacs.
-
- > 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).
-
- Update? What were you going to add? I use MG regularly on the latest
- thing I can get from CBM, and it doesn't have any serious problems.
- Needs a few new features, though. However, the real GNU sort of kills
- that. The trouble is, replacing all the amiga-specific functionality
- I've built around MG isn't that easy.
-
- <mike
-