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From: Paul Shirley <PS AT chocolat DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: IDE for DJGPP?
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 22:40:54 GMT
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In article: <DFEKvB DOT GIx AT jade DOT mv DOT net>  Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> 
writes:
>
>
>On Fri, 22 Sep 1995 FRITZW AT URIACC DOT URI DOT EDU wrote:
>
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>What's wrong with DOS port of Emacs?  It *is* compiled with DJGPP, is 
>under GNU GPL (i.e. free to use) and also exists under Unix/Linux, so you 
>can switch environments and remain sane.

Whats wrong is that most PC programmers have seen and used editors with
much better interfaces. emacs and gdb may be very powerful tools but so
are Brief and Turbo Debugger, and they are a hell of a lot easier to use.

Some months ago I discussed this with RMS. The result, nothings likely to
change since he (and no doubt others at the FSF) refuse to even look at 
commercial software, let alone use any of the ideas.

Luckily Brief (and PFE for Windoze) make a reasonable job of working with
GNU C (djgcc included)

-- 
Paul Shirley: too lazy to change this sig.