Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!arisia!roo!mdixon From: mdixon@parc.xerox.com (Mike Dixon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: making editmode=emacs *really* work Message-ID: Date: 4 Jul 90 19:50:19 GMT References: <25948@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@parc.xerox.com Distribution: comp Organization: Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 16 In-reply-to: scott@xcf.Berkeley.EDU's message of 4 Jul 90 10:55:13 GMT Stuart is shareware. a pre-1.0 version is available at all the major ftp sites (e.g. j.cc.purdue.edu) -- 1.0 is promised RealSoonNow. if you decide you like it, make sure to send your $40 in to Scott. there are a couple of known bugs in the pre-release version; if you avoid them it seems to be quite solid: (a) don't set the preferences with the preferences panel (use dwrite), and (b) don't set your window length to a power of two (e.g. 32 or 64). there's also a display bug with underlined characters and some roughness in the mouse selection. all this is supposed to be fixed in 1.0. despite the gotchas in the current version, i definitely recommend it over either Terminal or Shell. -- .mike.