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From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Announcement vs reality
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Date: 17 Nov 88 16:12:52 GMT
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In article <5900@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>(An even better solution is bundled software which can accept
>third-party software modules, but that's still a little ways off.
>But both Apple and Todd Rundgren claim to be working on it,
>independently of each other.)
Guess i ought to mention that the amiga can do this now, via its
device name space and the AReXX language. A good example is the
AmigaTex package, which will do Next-Error and such-like things
to the editor of *your* choice. I.e. you run TeX, it gets errors, and
if your favorite editor is there and can talk AReXX (most of them can now)
then AmigaTex will put you in the file at the point at which the 
error occured. And move you to the next one. This is (to me) the 
Right Way to do it, as opposed to the way Unix Emacses do it. 
   "Bundled software that takes third-party solutions" works NOW 
on the Amiga, but unfortunately the driving force behind purchasing
is usually compatibility and safety, not any fun reason ...
   Let's hope that the NeXT box is not so closed that it is less 
customizable than the amiga!
ron