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From: dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Editor Flame (MicroEmacs)
Message-ID: <1579@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 87 18:54:14 GMT
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Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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Summary: No need for Flames, the MicroEmacs you want is here...



In Article 11577, Michael Portuesi writes:

>I just spent a lot of time downloading (at least it was at 9600 baud)
>the source code for MicroEmacs 3.9e, unpacking and compiling it.

>I run the program only to find it opening a 640x200 window on my
>interlaced, morerow-expanded workbench.  Clicking on the right button
>reveals no menu bar.  Clicking the mouse in the window does not change
>the cursor position.  Resizing the window results in no change in the
>program's behavior. 

>I was evaluating MicroEmacs to see if it had matured to the point
>where I could use it instead of mg1b for my programming needs (since
>MicroEmacs has a C mode, an extension language, and the capability to
>redirect stdout to a buffer).  Instead, I find a program with as much
>user-interface smarts as a glass-tty.

>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 ...

Actually, it WAS time that the Amiga had some sort of Emacs-based
editor when the new release of Amigados (1.2) came out.  If you look
on the Extras disk that came with the upgrade to 1.2, you will find
a very nice emacs editor complete with pull-down menus, the ability
to spawn a new cli from the editor, etc.  (The cursor even moves
when you click the right mouse button ;-}).
I use emacs exclusively as a text editor for writing C programs, and
I find it to be a very nice editor.  

Excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me for not e-mailing this response ;-},
however, I have seen alot of stuff on this net that implies that people do 
not know about the Emacs editor on the Extras disk.  (I even saw a posting
where someone still uses ED - yuk!!! ;-} ;-}).

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