Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!granite.pa.dec.com!mwm From: mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Real Amigas have keyboard garages) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Replace LSE with mg? (Re: LSE Gripes (was: does anybody use LSE?)) Message-ID: Date: 28 Aug 90 17:44:42 GMT References: <1990Aug27.092147.15405@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <18@screamer.csee.usf.edu> Sender: news@wrl.dec.com (News) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Distribution: comp.sys.amiga Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: stelmack@screamer.csee.usf.edu's message of 28 Aug 90 02:49:42 GMT In article <18@screamer.csee.usf.edu> stelmack@screamer.csee.usf.edu (Gregory M. Stelmack) writes: What's so bad about LSE? Well, since you asked: It's not sufficiently configurable. Not enough buffers. Not enough windows. No ARexx port (pre 5.10; the one in 5.10 has some serious problems that may just be bad documentation - see sas.c/amiga.c on BIX for my comments on that). It's to big. mg is huge, because it adds a layer of abstraction for portability. Last time I checked, mg was smaller than LSE in spite of this. The one Amiga way has already been pointed out: Use an editor with an ARexx port, and tools that talk to it. Just got to get Lattice to add hooks to the compiler (via SASCOPTIONS?) so that I can tell it what string(s) to send to which port when the -E option is used...