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From:	Justin Johnson <Justin AT jjavp DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: EMACS??
Date:	Sat, 30 Sep 95 22:24:46 GMT
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In article <DFqC71 DOT H3H AT jade DOT mv DOT net> andy AT soft-n-hard DOT de "Andreas Busse" writes:

> No religion wars here, but emacs is one of the two real editors 
> of this world, namely VI and EMACS. Hard to learn, but once you're 
> familiar with one of them (ironically vi has an emacs mode and 
> emacs has an vi mode :-)) you'll never want to use any other 
> editor anymore!

Well, no religion war then. I suppose this thread is kindof similar to the
thread elsewhere concerning IDE. I'm glad that DJGPP doesnt come with an
IDE. Think of it as buying quality hi-fi seperates as opposed to buying an
all in one unit. Except your not buying anything! GNU is of course free...

Beware of VI and EMACS... you will be sucked into customizing them forever! :)
I recently downloaded GNU EMACS 19.29. Hmmm. Personal conclusion? - extremely
powerful and flexible although IMHO, a bit techie and cranky. A while back I
used to use VI. Same applies here. Both VI and EMACS are powerful and open
ended but not that intuitive. If you like unixy raw power then go for them.
If your in need of a free editor EMACS will do just fine and then some.

A while ago I also looked at a shareware editor called Aurura, if I remember
rightly this used a lispy kind of language but is well geared to DOS character
windows,dialogues and buttons. Its very flexible and easy to use - definetly
worth a look. You can find it at SimTel mirrors I think.

I've also used Brief. Some people still swear by this. Trouble is the scrolling
is not vsynced so it scrolls to fast on descent machines! Also it doesnt do
syntax highlighting. :(

At this point in time, I'm using MultiEdit. My search for _my_ perfect editor
stops here. Its unbelivibly easy to use, intuitive and flexible. I have it
set up as both my Watcom and DJGPP programming environment - make/compiling/
debugging and help.

Taste in editors is very personal, so take the above as just an opinion. Look
around for an editor you are happy with and tweak it to how _you_ want your
IDE to be. All the editors above blow Borlands IDE(dos) out of the water. IMHO.

Regards,
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E-Mail: justin AT jjavp DOT demon DOT co DOT uk
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