Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!ncar!boulder!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!itsgw!steinmetz!glacier!elliott From: elliott@glacier.steinmetz Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: AMACS - ProDOS text editor for the Apple 2 Message-ID: <11364@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 26 Jun 88 00:27:55 GMT References: <8806250359.AA04903@wheaties.ai.mit.edu> <8806250432.aa08712@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Sender: news@steinmetz.ge.com Reply-To: elliott@glacier.steinmetz.ge.com () Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 34 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. . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . ... . . Jim Elliott / ...!seismo!uunet!steinmetz!crd!elliott / "Don't look, son, it's / Jim_Elliott%mts@itsgw.rpi.edu [school] a secular humanist!" / (or) elliott@ge-crd.arpa [work] . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . ... . .