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From: dca@toylnd.UUCP (David C. Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Editor Flame (MicroEmacs)
Summary: Sure, go ahead!
Message-ID: <189@toylnd.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 87 06:48:20 GMT
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Organization: Dave & Anne in Charlottesville, VA
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> Now, I realize that I didn't pay anything for this program, and hence
> shouldn't be bitching about it.  But isn't it time that the Amiga had
> some sort of Emacs-based editor with full Intuition support, the
> ability to talk to a shell, *and* an extension language?  With these
> features, it wouldn't be too hard to construct an "integrated
> programming environment" (such as Turbo Pascal, LightSpeed C or
> Benchmark Modula-2) with just the plain Lattice or Aztec compilers. 
> I mean, mg is nice (I am using it right now on a Sun to type this
> message, and prefer it over GNU Emacs for most small editing jobs),
> but I lust for even a smidgen of the features that full GNU Emacs
> offers. 
> 
Sure, go right ahead.  You know what they say about getting it done right.

Generally, emacs rarely talks mouse, menus etc.  The one that came with the
enhancer stuff at least supports it to the point of clicking to a location
and setting marks but not for switching windows or selecting regions.

The thing that drives me bananas is the scrolling behavior. I tried compiling
3.8 and the window scrolls so that your cursor position is at the top of the
screen at the drop of a hat (including opening a line).  I haven't felt
compelled to search out why it has wacky scrolling behavior which the
unix drivers do not.  I just went back to the one that came with the enhancer
disk.  Unfortunately the one that comes on the enhancer disk doesn't have my
little hack (which I posted to comp.emacs) that vastly improves the
performance of windows split onto a single buffer (which is normally pretty
grim).  I'll bet 3.9e doesn't have it either.  Sigh.  Isn't reintegrating
your changes to changing software fun?  It seems I'll have to reintroduce
my routines that handle termcap input keysequences back in as well.  Sniff.

David Albrecht   Well at least one person managed to get a 2000
                 for the $1000 + serial number deal from Mountain Software,
                 mine finally arrived (yay!).  Haven't got my $500 rebate
                 yet though so for right now its $1500 + serial number.