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Subject: Re: Epsilon or BRIEF or Sage Editor -- Which is better ?
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Date: 2 Apr 91 15:34:02 GMT
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In article <=19G=+cb1@cs.psu.edu>, melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
> 
> Does anyone have any comments on Epsilon?  I have heard that it's one
> of the best PC editors.
> 
	I started using Epsilon when I got fed up with the Turbo Pascal
built-in editor (64KB limit, 1 file at a time).  Being familiar with EMACS, I
had no problem getting started.
	The version I used (I had it 1-1/2 ago) had no mouse support nor
menues.  But I loved it.  I generally did compilation by spawning off a process
(Epsilon then shrinks to a few KB) and running Make.
	If you like EMACS, you'll like Epsilon.  I haven't tried its macro
language, but it's just like C.
	I don't crave menus and mice with my editors because I hate losing time
by taking my hands off the keyboard.  I only like pull down menus with an
editor if they can ease configuring the editor.  I'm not impressed with Brief
or any of those other editors with menus and stacked windows.  I hate having to
use a mouse to move and expand windows.  Slows me down.
	I'm fond of Epsilon's ability to run DOS in a window.  I've often used
that to save transcripts of line-drive program output/error messages.  Of
course it doesn't allow you to run anything but simple line driven programs in
the window.
	I would be using Epsilon to this day, but I changed jobs, and I can't
afford my own personal copy (steep, in my opinion).  So I use MicroEMACS 
these days.

	My wish-list for Epsilon : A menu driven configuration set-up.
				   Vertical Split Screens.
				   Key binding templates to emulate
				   WordPerfect, Wordstar, EVE, EDT.

James
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