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From: plav@cup.portal.com (Rick M Plavnicky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Editor
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Date: 21 Oct 89 13:14:42 GMT
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I've always preferred emacs-style editors.  Presently on the Amiga I
use the microemacs v3.10 (recently posted) with a few modifications. 
Overall, it's very good and certainly serves the purpose, but far
from perfect.  (Chuck, how's your work on it coming?  Haven't heard
anything from you lately...)

The best emacs-style editor I've run across is on another platform.
The product is called Epsilon, from Lugaru Software.  This editor
currently runs under MS-DOS, OS/2, and UNIX.

WRT the UNDO feature that everyone's been discussing so heavily
lately, the docs for Epsilon claim that while you can set the size of
the undo buffers to be very large, sticking with the default size
will allow you to undo the last 1500 commands or so.  Personally,
I've never hit the limit.

I use this editor every single day, and I've never lost a bit of work
due to it malfunctioning.

I use Epsilon under MS/DOS (boo!  hiss!  but hey, but that's what
they pay me for...), but I sorely wish that Lugaru would port to the
Amiga.  I'd gladly pay the $195 list, it's that good.

Maybe Lugaru would consider a port, now that we've passed the 'magic'
million machine mark?  Perhaps I should write to them and ask, instead
of writing here?  I don't have their address handy, but Lugaru is in
Pittsburgh...


Rick Plavnicky
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