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From: jma@duke.UUCP (Jon M. Allingham)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: worth switching from gosling/unipress?
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Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 14:08:33 EDT
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I haven't used gosling/unipress emacs (as far as I know), but having
recently (not by choice, but by moving ) switched from Montomery's emacs
on Sys V I can assure you that GNU emacs is:
  1) horribly slow compared to Montgomery's emacs both in start-up
	and run time.
  2) the 'C' mode is awful in MY OPINION.

  3) doesn't do anything that Montgomery's emacs didn't that I really
	need to use.

However, GNU emacs is better (by orders of magnitude) than vi...


Jon M. Allingham, AT&T Bell Laboratories, currently at DUKE University