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From: mic@ut-ngp.UUCP (Mic Kaczmarczik)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Questions and Comments Amigoid...
Message-ID: <4068@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 4-Oct-86 23:02:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.4068
Posted: Sat Oct  4 23:02:55 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 7-Oct-86 19:22:34 EDT
References: <900001@hpsadla.HP>
Reply-To: mic@ngp.UUCP (Mic Kaczmarczik)
Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
Lines: 25
Keywords: Amiga Emacs screen update

Summary:


In article <900001@hpsadla.HP> jimh@hpsadla.HP (Jim Horn) writes:
>*    Does anyone out there know of a really worthwhile editor for the
>Amiga?  I've got the 'vi' lookalike ('z') which comes with Manx's
>Commercial C package, and I do enjoy it, but it is really only intended for
>writing programs, so it lacks word wrap and various other niceties.  Yes,
>EMACS is available, but like all other Amiga programs I've seen, it has a
>sssllloooooooowww screen update (equivalent to ~1200 baud).  Why I should

   What version of MicroEmacs did you try out?? The version I use has
screen update that goes at the full speed of the console device, which
is more like 7200-9600 baud!!! I recall that the original MicroEmacs
for the Amiga didn't buffer its output, which made the screen update
ridiculously slow, so this may be the one you tried. If so, try
MicroEmacs version 30, from the Fred Fish public domain software
library (disk #24, I believe), It's much improved over the original.

  As for "really worthwhile editor", I suppose it's obvious which one
I'd recommend, so I won't go into details... ;-)

  --mic--

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