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From: "Mark T. Gray" <markgray AT postoffice DOT ptd DOT net>
Subject: Re: IDE for DJGPP?
To: PS AT chocolat DOT demon DOT co DOT uk
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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 10:42:18 GMT
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On Mon, 25 Sep 1995 22:40:54 GMT, 
Paul Shirley  <PS AT chocolat DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> wrote:

>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:
>>
>>
>>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.
>
>