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- From: rigby@pyramid.unr.edu (Wayne Rigby)
- Subject: Re: recommend good Editor ??
- References: <1992Nov18.100310.5043@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
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- Organization: University of Nevada, Reno Department of Computer Science
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 10:33:55 GMT
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- Definitely Emacs. I use this all the time on unix machines and have used
- it for 5-6 years now and I'm still finding more and more stuff that's
- built in that's amazing. Some of the more useful stuff are the programming
- modes. There are C, lisp, prolog and probably more modes built in that
- will indent the code for you, checks and shows you which opening bracket,
- curly brace or parenthesis matches the closing one you just typed,
- let's you compile from within emacs, run programs and do things just
- as if it was a shell, edit your directories (chmod), name completion of
- files, is fast, on most unix boxes, etc. It can be used as a nice
- front end (I have few elisp files that emacs can use to be a nice front
- end to telnet'ing. And for ftp'ing, it will work something like AFS which
- is an improvement over NFS by letting you cd around in dired mode at the
- ftp site and automatically download whatever you want). It is also fast.
- When I downloaded the Amiga version to my friend's unaccelerated A2000HD,
- it loaded quickly from the hard drive (10 seconds, max) and worked very
- quickly and responsive. The pull down menus for the Amiga were very nice
- to have, and once I created an icon that would run it, things were very
- nice indeed. I wish that the info mode docs and some of the other docs
- came with it so I didn't have to download them myself from my unix site.
-
- Go for it if you have the memory (about 2 megs). It takes a little
- while to get going, but once you're comfortable with it, you start
- learning quickly!
-
- Wayne Rigby
- rigby@cs.unr.edu
-
-