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From: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: editor wars
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Date: Tue, 30-Jun-87 03:13:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 30 03:13:31 1987
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Reply-To: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi)
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klm@munsell.UUCP (Kevin McBride) writes:

> Well, I'm using Gnu Emacs 18.something-or-other on my Sun at work, and I
> love it.

You're not the only one.

> I tried the MicroEmacs that came on my 1.2 Extras disk, and I
> don't like it that much.

Have you tried Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer's MicroGnuEmacs?  It
has much the same flavor, the mouse interface is better than the
Workbench Emacs, and it has more features to boot (the Workbench
version doesn't even have M-x or key rebinding!!!)  Try it, I really
think you'll like it.  I even compiled mg here on Spice for use as a
"quick editor" for things like mail and news posts.

> I can't comment about DME because I don't have it.

I grabbed it when Matt posted it just so I could take a look at it.
It has some nice features (multiple window editing in genuine
Intuition windows plus iconification), but I felt it disobeyed enough
Intuition guidelines that I didn't want to switch (apparently I'm not
the only one that feels this way) .  Besides, the power of having one
universal editor across all the machines and environments I use is a
good case for using mg.

				--M

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