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From: sam@gtisqr.UUCP (Sam Felton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What's wrong with TPU ?
Summary: soo true...
Message-ID: <453@gt-ford.gtisqr.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 88 18:37:32 GMT
References: <2112@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk> <2115@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk>
Organization: Global Tech, Mukilteo, WA
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In article <2115@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk>, rkl@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk writes:
> In article <2112@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk>, phil@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk writes:
> > Oops - my previous message didn't include my signature.  Give me EDT in
> > preference to TPU any day  (that was Vax talk by the way..)
>
> Boing ! I disagree ! EDT is s---l---o---w and doesn't inform you if any
> changes have been made if you type quit at the * prompt. Give ME TPU (TED
> that is) any day over EDT.

Agreed! The TPU facility is _definitely_ a major improvement over EDT. It
allows you to virtually write your own editor, or add extensions with ease.

The pattern-matching routines are fast, flexible, and easy to use.

Best of all, it can handle almost any file organization that you can create
with RMS -- a definite plus. The only other editor that I've personally seen
that compares is emacs, and it is very large (code-size wize).

I'll NEVER go back to EDT.


--SAM--