Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Best Shareware Editor. Message-ID: Date: 20 Feb 89 01:45:31 GMT References: <111700040@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 22 In-reply-to: gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 15 Feb 89 06:00:00 GMT In article <111700040@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: Freemacs is quite similar to GNUEmacs. ... 1. It has a separate curser for mouse. ... You will get easily confused with the real curser position. It is really annoying. I'm not really sure what you expect here. Every mouse-based text editing system I've seen has two cursors - the text cursor and the mouse cursor. 2. In the top area and bottom area, mouse left-button does something unwanted. M-x move-to-mouse causes the text cursor to track the mouse cursor as long as the left button is held down. 3. It does not support bigger-than-64k files. Pity *%#$@ ix86! That is most people's complaint about Freemacs. [BlackBeard and Freemacs] are both great products. Cheers to those programmers for their efforts. Thanks, I appreciate it. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) If you can, help others. If you can't, at least don't hurt others--the Dalai Lama