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From: mg@unirot.UUCP (Mike Gallaher)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: comparison shopping
Message-ID: <148@unirot.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Nov-86 15:16:43 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 14 15:16:43 1986
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Summary: don't knock it 'til you've tried it

That message was a (heavily-encoded, sorry, but not sarcastic) response to
statements such as "Gnuemacs is the best Unix Emacs around".  I certainly
do pay attention to constructive well-researched comparisons, but these
were not couched as such, so I interpreted them as being religiously
motivated.  I don't take them seriously, any more than I am serious myself
when I say things like "Unipress Emacs is the greatest text editor in the
solar system" (which it is).  (After working on it for more than two years,
naturally I think so!)  But for those who don't know better, such comments
could give Gosling Emacs a poor reputation that I don't think it deserves.
I want to encourage people to try the choices themselves, and then decide.

For the record, I am not anti-Gnuemacs; it's got some spiffy things in it,
although RMS and I will probably never agree on various design issues.

Btw, the GOSDIFFS file in the GnuEmacs distribution (whatever the last
17.xx was) is out of date, but I think someone besides me should fix it :-).

Mike Gallaher
Emacs Hacker Boss
Unipress Software