Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!templar!jbickers From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Emacs for the Amiga 1000 ? (MicroEmacs?) Message-ID: <10528.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> Date: 20 Jan 91 05:14:25 GMT References: <1991Jan10.010629.6752@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu> <723@cbmger.UUCP> <17399@cbmvax.commodore.com> <18834327.ARN09723@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au> <10347.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz><1889ed1a.ARN09890@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au> <10445 Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG. Lines: 41 Quoted from <188d53e3.ARN09950@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au> by dac@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au (Andrew Clayton): > In article <10445.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>, John Bickers writes: > A resizable window. You can have up to ten files open. I've never wanted more > than 4 (and even that was overkill). If you're really mad keen, you can have I've wanted more than 4. Mostly a bunch of source files. I tend to have two buffers visible, and edit one while jumping around with the other (in n source files). CED loads files faster than MicroEMACS though, so there's not so much benefit from having all the files one needs in memory at the same time. > respect that Memacs can do repeats differently to CED, but CED CAN and DOES > enable you to do whatever you want within key-assignable macros, or Arexx I agree here. There's nothing MicroEMACS can do that CED can't be made to do, and do quicker, except for the named commands thing. My contention is just that the arcane arts are faster (for the user). This does make sense, considering that emacs in its various forms has had a lot more time to evolve than CED. Where CED hammers it into the dust is with the clickety-click stuff, and Amiga-specific coded speed. > 'more convenient' is a loaded term. Heh. > Where is the replacement in MEmacs for the superb file requestor built into > CED? Wanna open a file in MEmacs? You better damn well know the name of it, True. On the other hand, if I'm sitting away from the mouse... > Either MEmacs or CED is far better than Ed or Edit. Let's agree on that. Done. > Dac -- *** John Bickers, TAP, NZAmigaUG. jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz *** *** "Patterns multiplying, re-direct our view" - Devo. ***