Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!usc!wuarchive!decwrl!pa.dec.com!bacchus!mwm From: mwm@raven.relay.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction Subject: Re: Emacs for the Amiga 1000 ? (MicroEmacs?) Message-ID: Date: 16 Jan 91 20:33:47 GMT References: <1991Jan10.010629.6752@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu> <723@cbmger.UUCP> <17399@cbmvax.commodore.com><18834327.ARN09723@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au> <1887432a.ARN09843@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au> Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.introduction Distribution: comp Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 58 In-Reply-To: dac@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au's message of 15 Jan 91 12:28:58 GMT In article <1887432a.ARN09843@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au> dac@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au (Andrew Clayton) writes: In article , Mike (My Watch Has Windows writes: > I agree with that. My "home" machine (the one I spend the most time > working on) is a DS3100. No cygnus ed here. Lot's of versions of Hardly astute of you to point that out in an _Amiga_ area! :-) Well - if I could make enough to support my family IMTBAT, I'd quit using the DS3100. As it is, I work with it more than an Amiga... Some people don't have a choice of editor. I do. I'm thankful that I have the nouce to be able to exercise my choice. Mentioning that CED was the best thing since bitblts is my way of saying 'look, there is this neat editor, you ought to try it.' I did look at it once upon a time. I decided to stay with something that 1) didn't require lots of arcania to configure, and 2) I had source to. > In article <4407@mindlink.UUCP> a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) writes: > > A few other things: It [CED] has an ARexx interface; it's really > wild to run a little ARexx program and suddenly have the editor > screen pop to the front and start doing all sorts of things > automagically. The included demo will knock your socks off. > > Actually, that sounds like a real waste of time. If I'm running an > ARexx macro, I don't want the editor taking time to redraw the window Gack. You don't have to have Arexx use CED to do things. What Charlie was saying is that you CAN do that. You missed the point - I have ARexx do lots of things in my editor (for instance, fetch the ARexx function around the point, find the test cases in the introductory comment, run them, and put the results in another buffer, flagging the ones that are wrong). I don't really want to watch the editor do things while the macro is running - I just want to see the results. The implied question was whether you can turn this updating of the display off. I'm still interested in that. > errors (you do use an Arexx-driven spelling checker, don't you?). Now that's cruel. Why? Because it's handy to be able to interactively check the spelling of a word (or automatically, if you want it done that way), and get suggestions on correct spellings while in the editor, as opposed to running the spelling checker outside the editor after you're done?