Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!i2unix!inria!laas!ralph From: ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: editors: VI, EMACS Message-ID: Date: 2 Jan 91 11:20:55 GMT References: <37252@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@laas.laas.fr Distribution: comp Organization: LAAS-CNRS France Lines: 25 In-reply-to: Yonderboy@cup.portal.com's message of 26 Dec 90 21:02:27 GMT In article <37252@cup.portal.com> Yonderboy@cup.portal.com (Christopher Lee Russell) writes: | There are about a thousand different version of VI and EMACS on the lists | of Panarthea@sun.com and Atari.archive... Does anybody have any opinions | about which ones are best.. That GNU emacs looks huge, any advantage to it? It is Unix GNU emacs compatible for most everything (other than sub processes). The only thing is that it requires more than 1 Mb to do anything interesting. This doesn't mean to say that you cannot use on a 1040 ST. For certain functinality (such as bibtex-mode) it's the only way to go! | but Emacs lets you have multiple windows (at least the one built | into Gulam).. Also MG and UE310: all emacs! Cheers, -- Ralph P. Sobek Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own. ralph@laas.fr Addresses are ordered by importance. ralph@laas.uucp, or ...!uunet!laas!ralph If all else fails, try: sobek@eclair.Berkeley.EDU =============================================================================== Proud new owner of a Mega 4 ST. What should I do with my *small* SH204 drive?