Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!csc.anu.edu.au!manuel!ccadfa!prolix!dac From: dac@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au (Andrew Clayton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction Subject: Re: Emacs for the Amiga 1000 ? (MicroEmacs?) Message-ID: <18834327.ARN09723@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au> Date: 12 Jan 91 11:39:51 GMT References: <1991Jan10.010629.6752@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu> <723@cbmger.UUCP> <17399@cbmvax.commodore.com> Reply-To: ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au!prolix!Dac Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.introduction Distribution: comp Organization: I'm not an Organization - I'm a person! Lines: 45 In article <17399@cbmvax.commodore.com>, Andy Finkel writes: > In article vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) writes: > >In article <723@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes: > >If your are using Emacs on other systems as well, then you will not > >want to use the CBM version on the extras disk. This is simply because > >someone made find-file (^X^F) exit the editor rather than the standard > >find-file. (I won't submit a bug report on this, if you read it, fix > >it!) > > There are several standards of key sequences for Emacs...one family > is based on Gosling's Emacs. The other is based on GNU. The > version on the 1.3 Extras disk is based on Gosling's style of > commands. > > Just because something is different than what you're use to > does not indicate the presence of a bug. > > (Especially since you could have just rebound the commands to > the set you are used to, ie > > 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' nonsense is for the birds! Arexx and any_key macros, with undo, split screens and intelligent handling of requestors and file names. It's just so much EASIER to use. (I class Amiga-key sequences to be more intuitive than escape or control key ones :-). I value my time, more than I value any supposed 'across architecture' editing rubbish. I have to put up with ISPF, EDNA, and Edlin. I don't need the hassle of 'compatibility' to bog me down on my home machine. Just my opinion. > andy finkel {uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy Dac -- _l _ _ // Andrew Clayton. Canberra, Australia. I Post . (_](_l(_ \X/ ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au!prolix!dac . . I am. -------- I cannot send or receive mail to or from sites outside of Australia.