Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool2.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!nic!vinsci From: vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction Subject: Re: Emacs for the Amiga 1000 ? (MicroEmacs?) Message-ID: Date: 12 Jan 91 06:07:16 GMT References: <1991Jan10.010629.6752@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu> <723@cbmger.UUCP> <17399@cbmvax.commodore.com> Sender: vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) Distribution: comp Organization: Soft Service, Inc. Lines: 37 In-Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com's message of 11 Jan 91 17:34:26 GMT In article <17399@cbmvax.commodore.com> andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) writes: In article vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) writes: >If your are using Emacs on other systems as well, then you will not >want to use the CBM version on the extras disk. This is simply because >someone made find-file (^X^F) exit the editor rather than the standard >find-file. (I won't submit a bug report on this, if you read it, fix >it!) There are several standards of key sequences for Emacs...one family is based on Gosling's Emacs. The other is based on GNU. The version on the 1.3 Extras disk is based on Gosling's style of commands. Of course. But one of them is more standard than the other is. It is not Gosling's Emacs, and you know that. Just because something is different than what you're use to does not indicate the presence of a bug. It is inconsistent with the GNU Emacs on your Unix release. That's a user interface bug to me. (And of course; who use Gosling's Emacs? :-) One of the main points with emacs [whether it is the full GNU Emacs or some subset] is that it looks and works the same way on all the machines for which it is available, is that too much to ask for? Be nice now, or I'll send you a bunch of OS bug reports. (OK, I'll send them anyway... ;-) andy "God was able to create the world in only seven days because there was no installed base to consider." Also, check the Isamov book ending in (paraphrased) "It is worse than that, he's going to rest on the seventh day". (That's the one on brain travelling -- recommended). -- Leonard