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From: perkins@bnrmtv.UUCP (Henry Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Which Word Processor in 1987?
Message-ID: <2049@bnrmtv.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 01:29:19 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 24 01:29:19 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jun-87 04:52:52 EDT
References: <35a635f3.d5c4@apollo.uucp>
Organization: BNR Inc., Mountain View, California
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Summary: Consider Epsilon

In article <35a635f3.d5c4@apollo.uucp>, tbg@apollo.uucp (Tom Gross) writes:
>     Suppose you had an IBM PS/2 Model 50 on which you plan to  
>     do some graphics-related code development in C
>     Suppose, also, that you have no special preference for 
>     any of the word processors or editors commonly used with 
>     MS/DOS, having no extensive experience with an IBM PC or 
>     clone.
> 
>     What word processor would you choose today for developing
>     code on a mod 50?

To start off, I wouldn't use a "word processor" for developing
code on anything.  When developing code, I don't need multiple
fonts with WYSIWYG representation, even if Nicklaus Wirth likes
them.

If you've used EMACS, Epsilon from Lugaru Software would be a
good bet.  Epsilon has much of the power of EMACS, and is
designed to be easy for EMACS users to learn quickly.  As an
added plus if you're doing C coding, its programming language
is C-like instead of TECO.  Finally, it has a C mode, which
will do automatic indentation, parenthesis matching, and a
bunch of other things.  You get the source to all of the C
mode code, so you can make it work the way you like it to.

I've never heard anyone complain about Epsilon's performance
compared to other editors'.

If you haven't used EMACS, be advised that it's a very powerful
environment, and will let you screw yourself with just a few
keystrokes if you don't know what you're doing.
-- 
{hplabs,amdahl,3comvax}!bnrmtv!perkins        --Henry Perkins

It is better never to have been born.  But who among us has such luck?
One in a million, perhaps.