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- One of the fellows in our group would kindof like to switch from GNU
- Emacs to Lucid Emacs, but he experienced a few pains in trying to. If
- anyone could help us out a bit, we would be very grateful. I'll attach
- his mail describing his problems. Thanks!
-
- *********************** Attached Email *****************************
-
- Chuck,
- The other day you asked me to send you the reasons I quit using
- lucid emacs. Here they are:
-
- 1). Can't seem to get the cl-indent.el file to work with lucid emacs.
- I like this indendentation scheme, and I'd like to keep using it.
-
- 2). Mh behaves very differently when using lucid emacs, and I don't
- find the behavior as useful as under epoch. Probably I just need
- to use a different mh.el file, but I haven't had time to explore
- this.
-
- 3). Lucid emacs does not do a very good job of keeping track of which
- buffers are currently being displayed in windows. I.e. suppose
- you have file A being viewed in buffer 1 in window i, and file B
- being viewed in buffer 2 in window ii, and window i has the
- focus. If you then execute the following sequence:
- switch to buffer C (in window i) using the C-xb keyboard command
- switch back to buffer A (still in window i)
- switch to window ii (using the M-o keyboard command)
- switch back to window i
- initiate the C-xb command (switch-buffer)
- Lucid emacs prompts you with a buffer name to switch to (as it
- always does). The problem is - the buffer you are prompted with
- is buffer A, which is already being displayed in window i. I
- will NEVER want to switch to a buffer which is already being
- displayed in another window. Epoch very nicely (if you set up
- your windows correctly) prompts you with buffer C - which is what
- I want in this case.
-
- 4). The ilisp interface with lucid emacs is somewhat broken. Suppose
- you have two windows being displayed, with lisp in one of them
- (call it buffer A in window i), and a lisp buffer in the other
- (call it buffer B in window ii), and the focus is in window ii.
- If you use the any of the ilisp compile function (i.e.
- compile-defun, compile-file, etc.), lucid emacs always divides
- the current window in half, opens up a view of the lisp buffer
- (which is already visible in window i), and does the compilation
- there. This results in two different views of the lisp buffer,
- and both of them are showing the compilation as it progresses.
-
-
- I'll mention that there are two things about epoch that annoy me alot.
- There is a bug in epoch when using mh which causes epoch to crash and
- dump core - very annoying! Also, for some reason when running
- cmushell under epoch on kansa, the display output is VERY slow in some
- cases - the worst being running shell scripts with the -x (debug)
- option. In this case it takes a second or two per line of output! I
- don't even bother to run shell scripts in this way on kansa anymore.
-
- Ozzie,
-
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