Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Replace LSE with mg? (Re: LSE Gripes (was: does anybody use LSE?)) Message-ID: <1990Aug27.092147.15405@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 27 Aug 90 09:21:47 GMT References: Organization: SF Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 44 jkh@meepmeep.pcs.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >I would be much happier using LSE if: [good stuff] >What I think should be done instead, however, is to extend mg so that >it supports the desired features of LSE. Namely, "C" awareness and the >ability to spawn the compiler as a subtask, finding the errors as >necessary. Furthermore, I think that Lattice should be the ones to do >it, chucking LSE out the window. Should I say it? Should I invite the >religious wrath of hundreds down upon my head? Aww, why not. I don't get >enough mail anyway :-). We really really don't need Yet Another Editor. >What we need is a one nice general purpose editor that people can >rebind to their heart's content and run across multiple platforms. [and lots more good stuff] The BENCHMARK Modula-2 compiler is integrated with a version of emacs (not as nice as mg, but OK), with compile, link, and test, and bounce to errors from the compiler to the editor, all hooked up to functions keys, and it makes for an excellent development environment. I think this demonstrates that your suggestion is quite feasible to implement. Now, how many of the Amiga community are emacs/mg users, and how many use commercial editors, DME, Stevie, or the other available options to do program development? I know I use my BENCHMARK emacs editor as my everyday text editor, but is this mg/emacs use common or rare out there in comp.sys.amiga-land? If common, lots of notes to the SAS/Lattice folks promoting this idea as an option (or only choice, but this is harder with an existing user base), even at added cost, might be the way to go; wording like: I'd pay BIG, BIG BUCKS for an integrated "mg" replacement for LSE; otherwise I'm going with Manx out of spite, and telling all my MANY, MANY RICH COMPILER-BUYING FRIENDS, who ALSO want "mg" as their ONLY editor, to do the same. would probably get their attention. ;-) But first, is there a market? Kent, the man from xanth.