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From: srt@aerospace.aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Programming editor needed
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Date: 10 Jul 90 20:27:39 GMT
References: <1990Jul10.165411.5985@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1990Jul10.165411.5985@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jsivier@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jonathon Sivier ) writes:
>I currently am using; a VAXStation running VMS, an SGI IRIS running
>UNIX, PC clones running MS-DOS and a Commodore Amiga running
>AmigaDOS.  Since it needs to run on a VAX it would be best if it
>didn't require an escape key since the VAX keyboard has no escape.
>Does Emacs use the escape key?  If so is there a way around it?  Does
>Emacs do fence matching for C programing?

Emacs of some sort runs on all these machines.  I venture to say that
GNU Emacs, which is semi-freeware, runs on all these machines except
MSDOS boxes.  For MS-DOS boxes there are two freeware Emacs clones:
Freemacs and MicroEmacs.  For various reasons I prefer MicroEmacs.
Your mileage will vary.

But all you really need do is find a programmable editor on each machine
and set it up "as you like it".  Of course, the finest programmable editor
is GNU Emacs.  I can say this with impunity because I don't read comp.editors
and won't have to watch the resulting flame war.  :-)

					-- Scott turner