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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Emacs for the Amiga 1000 ?  (MicroEmacs?)
Message-ID: <10319.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 16 Jan 91 01:36:36 GMT
References: <1991Jan10.010629.6752@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu> <633@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <4798@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <1991Jan11.001849.9549@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
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Quoted from <1991Jan11.001849.9549@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> by xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan):
> getting UUCP going) and got to use Cygnus Ed on his 2000/30 box. This is
> a true marvel of an editor, with what seemed to be all of emacs'

    I've been looking at Cygnus Ed recently, trying to get it to co-operate
    with a news reader program I wrote. My normal editor is MicroEMACS -
    3.9e from Fish #119 on the Amiga, and 3.10i on the PS/2 at work.

    There are a number of areas in which I find it deficient. The biggest
    is the way it handles having multiple files open at the same time.
    It requires a window for each open file, which can be annoying.

    There are some other oddities, like the way moving the cursor a word
    at the time seems to be a two-hand operation, or the autosave being
    time-based instead of character based, and the autosave interrupting
    things with a prompt, or the requirement for a requester to set a
    repeat count for things, or... etc, lots of things that come down to
    taste.

    It _is_ very slick, and unlike MicroEMACS has an ARexx port, can
    stay resident in memory, etc.

> Kent, the man from xanth.
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