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From: mrs@netcom.COM (Morgan Schweers)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: EDITORS -> EMACS
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.044951.7951@netcom.COM>
Date: 17 Apr 91 04:49:51 GMT
References: <1991Apr15.155341.4999@athena.mit.edu> <1991Apr15.214137.1813@demott.com>
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Some time ago kdq@demott.com (Kevin D. Quitt) happily mumbled: 
>In article <1991Apr15.155341.4999@athena.mit.edu> maurik@irene.mit.edu writes:
>>
>>[good comments on the horrendous price of editors,
>> and a recommendation on two free ones.]
>>
>
>    They also have about 1% of the features available on real editors
>(e.g. Epsilon or Brief).  It would take as much time to bring Freemacs
>up to what Epsilon can do as it would to write Epsilon from scratch.
>Who has the time?  I certainly don't - I'm too busy using my editor
>on real programs.
>
    Prove it.  Tell me *WHAT* Epsilon or Brief do that MicroEMACS or
Freemacs don't?

    The obvious answer (at least for Freemacs) is the 64K limit.  I
(and many others) are working on this.  This is one of the advantages
of having the source code available.  However, I'm a normal programmer
(from what I can see) in that I keep my code in seperate modules.
None of my modules are over 64K, and I like it that way.  I find it a
neat project to work on cracking the supposed '64K' barrier.

    Freemacs is an editor for people who enjoy their programming, not
people who just want to do their job and go home.  I consider modifying
my editor for special features (which I bet I couldn't do under Epsilon
or Brief) to be part of my job.  It not only makes my life easier, but
it makes anyone who comes after me's life easier.  And after all, that's
what most of programming is.  Making tools to make making tools easier.

    Oh, and as a final note, I'd *WRITE* my own blasted editor before
paying $200+ for someone else's.

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   I'm looking for a copy of Turbo Pascal 3.x.  If anyone has it, I'd
appreciate hearing from them.  (IMHO, it was the last good version of
Pascal they made.  They've all been bloated since.)  --  mrs@netcom.com
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