Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction Subject: Re: Emacs for the Amiga 1000 ? (MicroEmacs?) Message-ID: <17492@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 13 Jan 91 03:11:18 GMT References: <1991Jan10.010629.6752@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu> <723@cbmger.UUCP> <17399@cbmvax.commodore.com> Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) Distribution: comp Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 43 In article vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) writes: >In article <17399@cbmvax.commodore.com> andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) writes: >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? :-) That's a really, really weak point; Oddly enough, AmigaOS is *different* from Unix. As is its user interface. Its a different operating system. It comes with different features. By your logic GNU emacs has a bug because it doesn't have an insert mode like VI. Further, MicroEmacs has been around for quite awhile, longer than we've been shipping GNU 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? Actually, the main point of real emacs is that it is extensible. You seem to have deleted the line suggesting you just rebind the keys in microemacs ot match the command set you are use to, so I'll mention it again. >-- Leonard andy -- andy finkel {uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy Commodore-Amiga, Inc. "God was able to create the world in only seven days because there was no installed base to consider." Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.