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- From: peteru@hydra.maths.unsw.EDU.AU ()
- Subject: Re: EMACS ??? was: C Editor...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.052400.25334@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 05:24:00 GMT
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- In article <61nqr*C+0@cecily.UUCP> cory@cecily.UUCP (Cory Cohen) writes:
- >
- >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.
-
- All I want from an editor is to edit text FAST.
-
- ...
-
- > (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, .....
-
- As I said, I want my text editors to be fast, and if possible have some
- sort of real time feedback. One problem I found with emacs on ALL machines
- was it's slowness of scrolling around. When it couldn't keep up it would
- just jump around in a very jerky and unpredictable way. Drives me nuts.
-
- I doubt very much that people want all of the features listed above. For
- most of the things you listed above a separate utility is often more de-
- sirable than the ability to invoke them from an editor.
-
- As far as automatic formatting of source code goes, yuck. I AM the one who
- is writing the code and I WILL decide what it is going to look like. When
- the machine is able to generate the code then it can do whatever it wants
- with it's layout (eg. GadToolBox).
-
- Don't get me wrong, I use Emacs and I like emacs, but only because I
- was able to configure it to behave (almost) like CED. I was pretty much
- one handed without CED's keybindings.
-
- Peter Urbanec peteru@hydra.maths.unsw.oz.au
- University of New South Wales s1013734@cs.unsw.oz.au
- Sydney, Australia
- The only sin is stupidity - Machiavelli
-