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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Replace LSE with mg? (Re: LSE Gripes (was: does anybody use LSE?))
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Date: 26 Aug 90 21:28:38 GMT
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In <1990Aug27.092147.15405@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>, xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>
>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.

Well, it's an excellent development environment for those who can stomach the
only editor it works with.

>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?

The very presence of many editors should serve to point the One True Way to
implementing development environments.

>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:

Let's get them going on implementing a development environment via ARexx, and
while we're at it, let's hit up out favourite editor authors to add fully
functional ARexx interfaces to their products. It's coming anyway, standard, so
we may as well get the full benefit of it.

I don't much care, personally, since my editor handles all that stuff quite
well. I just wish some of the tools I use had better hooks into them.

-larry

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