Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!rreiner From: rreiner@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: What your favorite editor for programming? Message-ID: <22173@yunexus.YorkU.CA> Date: 29 Mar 91 21:12:07 GMT References: <21481@shlump.nac.dec.com> <2648@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> Organization: York U. Computing Services Lines: 19 davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu ("John E. Davis") writes: >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). Jove 4.14. Non-buggy, faster than either uEmacs or Freemacs, no 64Kb limit, identically available on UNIX. No extension language (only simple macros) but the command set is both sufficiently GNU Emacs-like and sufficiently embellished that I've almost never missed having an extension language for the sorts of things I do with Jove on the 386 DOS box -- mostly C coding (this is from an inveterate Emacs Lisp tinkerer). Jove has nice compilation (including parse-errors) and tags (find-tag, find-tag-at-point) and process (filter-region, shell-command-to-buffer, etc.) support, and has been a very pleasant development environemnt for me for several years now. //richard