Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!emory!gatech!taco!mcnc!uvaarpa!software.org!sun!cox
From: cox@sun.software.org (Guy Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: msdos GNU emacs?
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.163825.11514@software.org>
Date: 20 Feb 91 16:38:25 GMT
References: <906@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <1991Feb19.204358.16742@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Sender: usenet@software.org (Usenet News/Mail Support)
Reply-To: cox@sun.software.org (Guy Cox)
Organization: Software Productivity Consortium
Lines: 38

In article <906@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>, cjeffery@cs.arizona.edu (Clinton
Jeffery) writes:
> From article <1991Feb19.204358.16742@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, by
cbrown@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Charles T Brown):
> > 
> > Freemacs is really the best thing out so far; but the problem is, it
> > is incredibly slow...
> 
> Gee, Freemacs is hand-coded in 8086 assembly language!  In what way
> is it slow?  Russ Nelson's program is (in my opinion) a high-quality
> piece of art; I only tossed it out because I wasn't willing to learn
> its (weird) extension language...
> -- 
> | Clint Jeffery, U. of Arizona Dept. of Computer Science
> | cjeffery@cs.arizona.edu -or- {noao allegra}!arizona!cjeffery
> --

Wrong-OH on the slow! The only thing slow about freemacs is loading it
off the disk
and I'm running a 10MhZ Xt. It is the only editor that has prevented me from 
becoming a full blown schizophrenic (I can use essentially the same
editor at home
as at work). It's the only editor that I've used since SPF under IBM's MVS
( when people ask me "what's up" I still respond "PF7")  that I've
felt had all the features that I've needed in an editor and if freemacs
doesn't have
the features that I need I can add them. True freemacs can pose problems in the
compile edit cycle unless you have the latest compile.min .... 
//
//Remember; Tuesday is Soylent green day!
//

Guy O. Cox, Jr.  
Software Productivity Consortium.
2214 RockHill Rd
Herndon, VA 22090
703-742-7219
cox@software.org