Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 17:42:50 +0900
From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Wild Crashes? hmmm...

   >>>>> On Sat, 28 Jan, peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock) said:

   > 	2. when i run info and get to the end of the page by using the 
   > 	cursor keys, it locks up.

   Bob> I recommend forgetting the info program and using emacs to read the docs.

   If you fell emacs is too large, get jed386, it can read the info files
   just fine.
   --
   Dong Liu  <dliu AT ace DOT njit DOT edu>

...which can be found at amy.tch.harvard.edu:/pub/jed.  Definitely get
jed386; some of the info files are big enough to run into memory
constraints under real-mode jed, let alone if you're editing other
large buffers at the same time.
    If you are tempted to use jed as an editor (it's rather big to be
considered a standalone info reader :), be warned: jed is only
approximately GNU-emacs-like, and there are some gotchas that can
cause data lossage.  In particular, many keybindings that are "kills"
under emacs are "deletes" under jed, so they do not get appended to
the kill buffer; as far as I can tell the kill buffer in jed is a
single buffer, not a ring, so a new kill will flush the previous one.
    SLang looks like a usable extension language (of course, it's full
programming system in itself, but that's not what I want it for).
But IMHO it is only faintly C-like (Pascal is a far better
approximation to C), and EmacsLISP functions and programming
experience do not translate to SLang easily at all.  The docs also
have a long way to go before they look like the EamcsLISP manual ;-)