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- From: tjs@earth.wustl.edu (tom sullivan)
- Subject: Re: Macs for UNIX lovers
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.194659.18606@wuecl.wustl.edu>
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- References: <C012B0.602@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu> <TRSNYDER.92Dec29133109@vf0031.mcs.drexel.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:46:59 GMT
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- In article <TRSNYDER.92Dec29133109@vf0031.mcs.drexel.edu> trsnyder@mcs.drexel.edu (Bob Snyder) writes:
- >In article <C012B0.602@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu> ctrbdo@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu (bryan d oakley) writes:
- >
- > As I have said in other postings (whether you've seen them or not),
- > I am a new mac owner. My roots are in UNIX, mostly of the
- > workstation variety (with a smattering of VMS and (argh!) Data
- > General AOS/VS -- though, why should you care?). Anyway, I want my
- > mac to have some of the 'luxurys' I've grown used to. For example,
- > I want an emacs clone (microemacs?), I would love to gateway email
- > to the net (uucp/uupc?),
- >
- >There is a uEmacs out there.... Really, though, I would suggest
- >getting a real word processor, and using a program like BBedit for
- >small things, since it's smarter about dealing with Mac files than any
- >version of emacs for the Macintosh I've seen.
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- For a good emacs like editor, try Alpha. It's shareware ($25) and is a
- really good editor which supports modes such as LaTeX, C, and yes,
- even FORTRAN. It blows the socks off the microemacs I've tried for the
- Mac. I probably got my copy from wuarchive.wustl.edu (a local plug:)
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- tom
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