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- From: cory@cecily.UUCP (Cory Cohen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: C Programmer's Editor of Choice?
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:34:14 EST
- References: <1992Jul20.052824.29189@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <BrpFqH.8MD@DMI.USherb.CA>
- <mykes.09ny@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG> <BrrB07.7Bu@DMI.USherb.CA> <14js9gINN8m5@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
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- In article <14js9gINN8m5@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>, Steve Davis writes:
- > I'm going to have to chip in with a word for GNU-EMACS, the ONE
- > TRUE EDITOR. Something has to be said for EMACS, since it can
- > *emulate* through ELisp any other text editor. And what's even
- > better is that it's MACHINE INDEPENDENT! :-) I'm using EMACS
- > right now on an 80 MIPS UNIX box, have it for my laptop, for my
- > Amigas, etc. etc. etc.
-
- Here's what it came down to for me...
-
- I you want ONE editor that will do EVERYTHING you could ever DREAM
- of doing, get GNUEmacs.
-
- * Command/Filename completion
- * Multiple windows
- * Multiple buffers (each with it's own key bindings/environment)
- (there's a difference betweeen windows 'n' buffers ya know)
- * Full online help
- * Reads info format help files (docs for most of GNU)
- * Online tutorial
- * Function/Variable descriptions
- * Mode descriptions
- * ELisp (macro language)
- * Complete(?) lisp implementation built into editor
- * Compiler (actually I don't what you'd call byte-compile but
- a compiler's the closet word I can think of)
- * 1000's of programmers writing macros
-
- (Here's the real trick... Anyone else who has an editor macro
- language which can do ANY of these things, speak up now...!!!!)
- * Macros
- * Read mail
- * Read news
- * Directory editor (copy, rename, delete, compress, edit ...)
- * Demonstrate the solution to the tower of hanoi :-)
- * Life simulation
- * Sort (by line, column, paragraph, field, etc)
- * Langauge support: C, Modula2, Ada, Fortran, Scheme, Prolog,
- TeX, Simula, Nroff, Pascal, .....
-
- Plus, it runs on ever platform imaginable. I couldn't stand having
- seven different editors XEDIT, VI, TPU/EVE, CED, PE, EDLIN, etc.
-
- Now I run GNUEmacs on:
- * My 386 PC at the office
- * My vax account
- * My unix accounts
- * My Amiga
-
- And you know what? It's pretty much the same on each of them...
- So -- I'll admit it. I don't use 1/4 of what GNUEmacs offers, BUT
- you'll never see me cussing over changing editors again. GNUEmacs
- will do anything I'll ever need, and run on every computer I'll
- ever have.
-
- Cory Cohen (Another GNUEmacs bigot)
-
- P.S. I wouldn't recommend running it on a 68000. (Kinda slow)
- Runs great on my Amiga 3000 tho'. :-)
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