Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Dear Saint Andrew... Message-ID: <3755@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 26 Jul 90 01:15:35 GMT References: <0adTPN8B0TlkM4PEF=@zany.EuroPARC.Xerox.COM> Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 27 >Yes, it is true that I many times wished EZ was even closer to Emacs >than it already is (in fact, I even wish that the two were were one and >the same program!). Which EMACS? If it were moved closer in some ways to GNU EMACS - e.g., by breaking the way ^T works, and not having it transpose the two characters to the left of the cursor - I'd have to change it back before using it. >EZ may have been around longer than GNU Emacs, but remember that GNU >Emacs itself is just a decendent of ITS/Twenex Emacs by the same >author. It's changed a lot since then, but I think it's done a pretty >good job still of keeping itself remarkably consistent with the >original Emacs. If ^T is one of the ways in which it maintains that consistency, I consider that a misfeature. :-) EZ is, I suspect, more a descendant of *Gosling* EMACS than of GNU EMACS (which shouldn't be too much of a surprise :-)). Gosling may have been the person who changed ^T's behavior (I suspect so, given that the Korn shell gives GNUish behavior in its EMACS mode by default, but Gosling/EZ-ish behavior if EDITOR is set to ".../gmacs"; I'm assuming the "g" is for "Gosling"). Gosling EMACS also uses the ".BAK" and ".CKP" conventions for backup and checkpointing files, and I suspect that's whence EZ got them.