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From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Emacs for the Amiga 1000 ? (MicroEmacs?)
Message-ID: <4475@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jan 91 12:43:32 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In article <MWM.91Jan16123347@raven.relay.pa.dec.com>
mwm@raven.relay.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) writes:

>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.

     Actually, there's no arcania at all.  For some time I ran with
CED straight out of the box.  After a while, I got tired of having
that timed save requester pop up, especially since if it happened
while I was typing really fast I might hit a Y and wind up writing
a stripped-down file over the original instead of getting a chance
to save it under a different name.  :-(  So I found the menu entry
that turned it off, then found the one that said "Save environment".
Presto - all done.  (I did it once afterwards to make it remember
to open an overscanned screen.)

     Of course, there's still the learning curve.  Although it's a
small one, smaller ones have kept busy people like me from trying
something new.  And, of course, you don't get source.  :-)

>   > 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.

     Since I started this thing in the first place, I guess I'd better
clear up the misconceptions.  The only reason the CED screen popped to
the front is because the ARexx program had a "screentofront" directive
at the beginning.  Had I left it out, CED would have quietly done its
business in the background.  Sorry for not pointing that out.

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
"Don't you hate it when that happens?"  -- Beetlejuice