Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!uunet!ogicse!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: 17 Jan 91 19:17:43 GMT References: <4475@mindlink.UUCP> Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 37 In-Reply-To: a218@mindlink.UUCP's message of 16 Jan 91 12:43:32 GMT In article <4475@mindlink.UUCP> a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) writes: In article 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. You mean it looks very much like GNU emacs out of the box? If not, then there's arcania involved for me to configure it. 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. Much more reasonable. Does it try and update it's window while it's in the background, or will the window stay frozen until the macro is through? (There are lots of other things tied into this, like whether the window accepts user commands at that time, etc.). After all, it's not seeing it that's the problem - it's that it takes time out to update the display with information that's of no interest to me. The ability to do that update is a nice feature; the inabaility to turn it off is a bug.