Xref: utzoo comp.os.msdos.programmer:4334 comp.emacs:10433 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!davis From: davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu ("John E. Davis") Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.emacs Subject: Re: What your favorite editor for programming? Message-ID: Date: 29 Mar 91 20:03:52 GMT References: <21481@shlump.nac.dec.com> <2648@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> Sender: news@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (John E. Davis) Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.programmer Organization: "Dept. of Physics, The Ohio State University" Lines: 30 In-reply-to: scott@cs.hw.ac.uk's message of 28 Mar 91 13:04:29 GMT In article <2648@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> scott@cs.hw.ac.uk (Scott Telford) writes: [...] Of course, everybody should be using Emacs-type editors...I would never use anything else ;^) Which emacs editor do people use for pc's? I know of only two: MicroEmacs and Freemacs. I find Micro-Emacs kind of buggy (I cannot redefine ^U-- try it; the functions have different names than emacs, eg, bind-to-key vs global-set-key) and Freemacs has a wierd extension language (mint). Which of these two emacs-like editors (assuming only two) do most people prefer? (either email or post an opinion and I will post a summary) Since I have totally redefined my keys from the normal emacs bindings, I cannot use an editor which does not allow me to redefine the keys. So I do not consider an emacs-type editor which does not allow me to redefine the keys to be an emacs-type editor. At this point I use MicroEmacs but it only supports two keymaps: ^X and ^[. What about Freemacs? Does it support multiple keymaps? If so then I would appreciate it if someone were to send me a sample mint source for Freemacs which redefines some keys and things. In addition, does Freemacs blink matching {}[]() like emacs and does it have a C-mode? Thanks, -- John bitnet: davis@ohstpy internet: davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu