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From: derek@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl (derek)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Programmer's Editor
Message-ID: <665@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl>
Date: 14 Feb 91 11:20:37 GMT
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cox@sun.software.org (Guy Cox) writes:

>Get freemacs. It's available from Clarkson. It's close enough to
>EMACS/EPOCH that I
>don't suffer culture shock when I move from UNIX to MSDOS. The virtures
>of this 
>editor have been ignored for too long in this news group.

But I don't HAVE emacs on my (Sun4/pyramid) UNIX system, and have never
seen it on ANY unix system I've worked on - I've either had to use vi
(not too bad, but not too good either) the user-hostile sun editor, or
Framemaker - which sometime is rather a steam-roller to crack a nut!

As I mentioned in another article, I use Multi-Edit which I have set up
to emulate word-star type commands, for initial work, Borlands IDE for
debugging and trimming (word-star like) and AHED for small batch-file
work. I don't get too confused :-)

Best Regards, Derek Carr
DEREK@DTS.INE.PHILIPS.NL           Philips I&E TQV-5 Eindhoven, The Netherlands 
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