Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!netcom!rodent
From: rodent@netcom.UUCP (Ben Discoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Questions (new to the atari, have a TT)
Message-ID: <22533@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 91 00:46:47 GMT
Organization: Netcom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 241-9760 guest}
Lines: 28

I'm coming from a heavily Amiga/Unix background, trying to get used
to developing with Mark Williams on a top-of-the-line TT.

My first problem was the apparent lack of a decent shell or editor.
After studying the docs for "MSH" it seems it MIGHT be adaquate,
but the editor is hopelessly primitive (a uEmacs with a worse user
interface than the pathetic thing Commodore's been bundling for years)

I assume there are serious editors out there, that support mice and
undo and can reconfigure the keyboard etc. like CygnusEd Pro for the
Amiga or Emacs for the Unix world.  Can someone give me a tip?
What do Serious developers use?  Price is not a concern.

I also sorely need a ramdisk facility of some sort - I've talked to
atarioids who say they have them, so I assume it's not difficult.
With 6 meg to kill, and a DOS that Really Thrashes the hard disk,
I *need* a ramdisk.

Finally, is there a way to turn off that horrible beeping every time
I press a key?  I shall go insane listening to it much longer.

Thanks.  Be nice and you'll win a convert to Atariness.  My development
setup on the loaded Amiga3000 that sits next to the TT on my desk is
wonderful, but that's because of years of accumulating the best utilities
from all sources.  This is what I'm looking for on the TT.

---------------
Ben Discoe, computer scientist/deep ecologist.