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From: bzs@bucsd.UUCP (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: RFC: EMACS vs TPU
Message-ID: <152@bucsd.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 23:02:03 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  8 23:02:03 1986
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>From: dko@calmasd.UUCP (Dan O'Neill)
>I am looking for comparative comments on the advantages and
>disadvantages of Unipress EMACS over Digital Equipment Corporations
>new VAX TPU editor.

I would seriously consider GNU emacs, or at least UNIPRESS with sources
(or CCA with sources for that matter.) I don't know if sources are available
for TPU/LSE (ufiche doesn't count, try loading it into TPU!) Besides being
able to fix your own bugs without feeling the helplessness of filling out
SPRs you would also instantly be a member of a community (via the nets)
that also has sources and can be consulted and used for fast bugfixes
and added features (and the GNU people are generally open to putting people's
added features on the distribution tapes provided they seem to be of
reasonably common interest, perhaps the same for UNIPRESS and CCA, I just
don't know.)

On the other hand you sound like you run VMS so you may have to wait a
while for a version of GNUmacs, though I wouldn't let that alone force
your hand until finding out how long that is (maybe soon?)

Remember, besides the operating system itself and some of it's utilities
the editor is probably one of the single most important and frequently
run program on a system. Running without sources can really be a disaster.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University