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From: qix@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Puckett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Marketing suggestion for C-A
Message-ID: <4401@ihlpa.ATT.COM>
Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 10:03:59 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 25 10:03:59 1987
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In article <184@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter DaSilva) writes:
> > But would SOFTWARE companies like this?!  The market for a programmer's editor
> > is kinda down_the_tubes if everyone has Matt's DME...
> 
> Everyone already has MicroEmacs, which is a better programmer's editor than
> DME. DME is cute, but it doesn't even support the standard Amiga user
> interface! MicroEmacs at least lets you use the menus as command-key
> equivalences.

I use DME exclusively now.  Although it lacks many of the features of
microEMACS, it is extensible (perhaps if I had a full-blown EMACS...).
Now I have a "push" operation that moves a line of text up or down
through the file.  DME can be configured to fit my idiosyncracies, which
makes it a lot more useful than any highly customized but closed editor.
I'll take extensibility every time.

Also, DME is fairly small.

			Anxiously awaiting the new version,
			-Ed Puckett.