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From: elliott@glacier.steinmetz
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Subject: Re: AMACS - ProDOS text editor for the Apple 2
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Date: 26 Jun 88 00:27:55 GMT
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In article <8806250432.aa08712@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> bfox%cornu@hub.ucsb.edu writes:
>I work for Richard Stallman; we are writing GNU together, along with others.
>I don't call my program "Emacs", I call it AMACS.  It *is* an Emacs for the
>Apple; the closest Emacs to it is Twenex Emacs.  It is a subset of Gnu Emacs,
>and it doesn't have a Lisp builtin (this version, anyway) but I wouldn't call
>it small.  Try my demo offer; then decide for yourself.  I will be glad to
>have you review this editor as long as you make public your findings.  If you
>are interested, please reply publicly; you have made your negatice, and
>unfounded opinions public already.

Please don't accuse me of voicing opinions about AMACS! Reading my
posting carefully should have revealed that I have never seen it, and
am very eager to do so. I was expressing doubt over another person's
claim that it was "Emacs for the Apple". Largely this was because I
did not want to get too excited about it; I very much like Emacs, and
am extremely frustrated with all the editors I have seen on the Apple.

From what you have said above, AMACS sounds like an >extremely<
worthwhile package, much more than I was even optimistically hoping
when I said it might be worth the $80 price tag that was quoted.

Finally, I was not complaining about your choice of name, but another
person who had (mistakenly, I believed at the time) called it Emacs.

So, far from being negative, my opinions of AMACS are unformed, but
eagerly curious.

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