Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!ecsvax!kms
From: kms@ecsvax.UUCP (Ken Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UEmacs, CygnusEd question
Summary: another choice, try DME
Message-ID: <7089@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 89 02:54:19 GMT
References: <16088@louie.udel.EDU>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <16088@louie.udel.EDU>, "kosma@ALAN.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM"@alan.kahuna.decnet.lockheed.com writes:
>  
> So, here's the question(s):
>  
> 1.	I believe there's a new version of UEmacs
> out and about; does anybody know if it will allow EITHER redefinition of
> alt keys from init files OR use of the standard system keymaps?  
>  
> 2.	I've read and heard a little bit about CygnusEd.  How would it
> fare in a similar case?  How does it compare to UEmacs?  Could I
> customize it to use similar keystrokes/features as Emacs?
>  
> Montgomery N. Kosma
> LE03472%portal.decnet.lockheed.com@austin.lockheed.com
>                ( it's long but it works )
There is a third choice, to confuse you further, and that is
the Dillon editor: DME 1.31.  It has several advantages:
a) it will allow you to map just about any key combinations to
any of the nice-sized set of text commands available; b) all
commands can also be put into user-designed menus (which I do
with more obscure/convoluted commands); c) there is an "iconify"
command which shrinks the window to icon size and gets it out of
your way quickly; and it is a fast editor.

The best thing about the editor is that all commands can be
re-mapped to whatever key you like.  You don't have to learn
what someone else thinks is "intuitive" (just because those
were the first key-commands the programmer learned).

One strong recommendation with DME, get arp.library and use
those very nice file requesters with the program.

This is a FINE editor, powerful but still lean.  I would send
Matt some bucks for this but he isn't starving although he is
an __________. (read his doc's for answer.)


	--ken
>  


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Ken Steele   Dept. of Psychology    kms@ecsvax.[bitnet || UUCP]
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