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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: <4484@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jan 91 21:02:15 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In article <MWM.91Jan17111743@raven.relay.pa.dec.com>
mwm@raven.relay.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) writes:

>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.

     Oops, my mistake.  I thought you were referring to the amount
of effort required to make it run at all, in a default configuration.
Now that my fingers have learned CED, I'd probably want to configure
any other editor to look like it.  Sigh.

>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.

     This is getting a bit out of my depth.  I haven't had time to
do more than play with ARexx a bit.  I made up a little test program
last night that had CED do a few things, and it didn't flip to the
front once I removed the "cedtofront" command.  When I flipped to
its screen everything was done, but I can't say whether it was
updating the screen on the fly.  As a guess I'd say it still was;
it just feels like the kind of thing that, if I were programming
it, I wouldn't think about taking the trouble to suppress - at
least until someone complained.  :-)

     It's probably time for me to shut up now.  Does anyone out
there have any hard facts?

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
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