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From: scott@cs.hw.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
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Subject: Re: What your favorite editor for programming?
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Date: 31 Mar 91 14:09:27 GMT
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In article <DAVIS.91Mar29150352@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu>
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).  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)

Of course, there's Jove as well... it's closer to GNU Emacs than
MicroEMACS (especially keybinding-wise), and has some clever bits, but
doesn't have a proper macro language.
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