From:	mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Question about RHIDE and EMACS
Date:	14 Mar 1997 14:20:12 GMT
Organization:	Oxford University, England
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Paul Derbyshire (ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA) wrote:

: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea " (salvador AT natacha DOT inti DOT edu DOT ar) writes:
: >   If you have time invested in learning a tool I sugest that don=B4t switc=
: > h to 
: > other because you=B4ll need to learn new things.

: Okay, Smartypants, if this inline encoding thing is for plus-127 ascii
: characters, then why in the world are these garbles in this message? There
: is a garble for every newline. Newlines are ascii 10. There is also a
: garble for every apostrophe. I forget the apostrophe's ASCII code but it's
: above 32 and below 64. I wish people would ensure their postings were easy
: to read, and not assume everyone has the latest version of netscape and
: what's more happens to be using it at the time! I netscape through a
: pay-fopr provider, but I use freenet for a lot of things in order to
: reduce used time and stuff, and freenet doesn't support any of this stuff.
: Which is why I find inline HTML and anything else of the sort in newsgroups in
: non-binary groups to be quite annoying...

Finshed ranting? Good. I already explained to you what quoted-printable
is, and while I find it annoying, I find it more annoying that you have
the gall to post to a newsgroup to which you are relatively new
complaining about something that happens when a regular poster (and
contributor of free software) posts helpful comments to the group. You
know that this is occurring because of a deficiency in your own
newsreading software, and it is not always trivial to turn Q-P off. It
isn't that difficult to see what is being said, anyway.

: >   I think that RHIDE is more easy to use but Emacs is more flexible.

: RHIDE is very easy to use. The one nonintuitive thing I can't quite figure
: is the way Alt doesn't highlight the menu bar and activate it by itself,
: like in every other imitation-windows program. Alt-f brings file menu down
: but alt, release, f just inserts an 'f' in the document you're working on,
: which is frankly a tad irritating.

RHIDE is a clone of Borland's DOS-based IDE, and most of the differences
between RHIDE and Windows programs are actually similarities between RHIDE
and Borland's IDE.

-- 
George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford

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