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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: <10347.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 16 Jan 91 11:28:13 GMT
References: <1991Jan10.010629.6752@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu> <723@cbmger.UUCP> <VINSCI.91Jan11104015@nic.nic.funet.fi> <17399@cbmvax.commodore.com> <18834327.ARN09723@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au>
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Quoted from <18834327.ARN09723@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au> by dac@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au (Andrew Clayton):
> In article <17399@cbmvax.commodore.com>, Andy Finkel writes:
> > bind-key Rename ^XF

> I can (vaguely) understand that people like to be able to use the same editor
> over multiple platforms, but really, why put up with the arcane arts, when you
> can use a MAGIC editor like Cygnus Ed? All this 'control key' and 'escape key'

    Because the "arcane arts" are faster. Simple example, to set up a
    repeat count with CED you have to press <Amiga>-<Shift>-<'>, type
    your number, press <Return>, then hit the key you want repeated.
    Under MicroEMACS, it's just <Esc><number><key to repeat>. If you
    do much of this key-repeating stuff (execute a macro n times, add
    comment lines, etc), this can be annoying.

> Dac
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