Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 08:53:10 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Paul Shirley <PS AT chocolat DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: IDE for DJGPP?


On Mon, 25 Sep 1995, Paul Shirley wrote:

> >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.

I won't want to start a religious war here, but when did you last looked 
at Emacs?  The latest version 19.29 has menus, color syntax highlighting 
and mouse support, to name just a few issues which traditionally were 
seen as ``deficiences'' as opposed to the editors you mention.