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From: bandy@lll-crg.aRpA (Andrew Scott Beals)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: comparison shopping
Message-ID: <7888@lll-crg.aRpA>
Date: Thu, 20-Nov-86 18:00:23 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 20 18:00:23 1986
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In article <14582@kestrel.ARPA> king@kestrel.ARPA (Dick King) writes:
>[some things in response to Mike Gallaher's notette, among them:]
>(I still use Unipress EMACS for my PC.  Before you respond something
>like "see, conses make GNUmacs too bulky" [...]

No, RMS makes Gnumacs too bulky.  That thing is a *pig*.  Not to
mention that the source code is gigantic.  And that they don't
provide a compress'ed version of the distribution on prep for people
to ftp off, thus doubling the amount of network traffic out of
mit-prep ["But you could login to prep and fix it yourself!"
However, most people don't know that and clog the gateways.]..

Perhaps this is why there is such a problem with the arpanet <->
milnet gateways as of late?

Also, in His great wisdom, RMS decided to bind ^H to be the "Help"
key.  Way back when, during the true emacs days, the help key was
^_.  I don't know if they're listening out there, but there are a
*lot* of people who use ^H to delete the last character typed.  "But
you can rebind that."  People say, however it is a number (five?) of
non-obvious changes to totally rebind things -- my users, Gosmacs
users, couldn't figure it out from the provided documentation.

And let's not mention the maintainability of c-code written with the
help of a bunch funny pre-processor defines that makes it look
something like lisp.  I think of the "baby" in Eraserhead whenever I
look at that code.  

The code in Unipress Emacs and in Jove, on the other hand is just
plain beautiful.

	andy
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