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From: david@starsoft (Dave Lowrey)
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Subject: Re: CYGNUS vs GNU (Was Re: Emacs for the Amiga 1000 ?  (MicroEmacs?))
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Date: 23 Jan 91 13:46:22 GMT
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In article <4849@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, Masaru Sugai writes:

> Thanks for responce to this issue.  Some article referred me as the original
> poster, though.  Judging from the follow-ups and mails recived personally,
> most of you recommmend me CED. Here's an excerpt from the latest AC's
> guide/AMIGA (underlined by me)
>
> [CygnusEd Professional 2.0]
>
 (description of CED)
>
> And yesterday I came across a gnu-emacs in ab20.larc.nasa.gov.  This might
> cause a storm of discussion, but I'm so curious that I can't stop asking you.
>
>   WHICH IS AN EDITOR OF CHOICE FOR AMIGA, CYGNUS OR GNU ?
>

GNUEmacs, for the amiga, is LARGE (>500K), slow (it takes 20-30 seconds
to start up om my 68020 hard drive system), and buggy (It crashes my
system after exiting).

It is definately in the "beta test" stage at this point.

> As is often the case with platform dependent editors, Cygnus seems to fly
> elegantly on Amiga, but GNU also looks powerful for programmers....
>

My problem with CED is that you can't write native CED "scripts". Any
macros have to be entered directly into the editor, and saved. I you
have different "modes", you have to re-enter commonly used macros
and save them for each mode.

Other than that, and a few other minor gripes, CED works well.

There are also several other PD editors that work well. Some that come
to mind are DME, Stevie, and QED.

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