Sender: Jorrit DOT Tyberghein AT uz DOT kuleuven DOT ac DOT be
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Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 09:27:11 +0100
From: Jorrit Tyberghein <Jorrit DOT Tyberghein AT uz DOT kuleuven DOT ac DOT be>
Organization: Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: [Q] textEditor of choice
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Paul Mills wrote:
> 
> In article <4hgnfn$kr4 AT news DOT service DOT uci DOT edu>,
>    beppu AT arcturus DOT oac DOT uci DOT edu (John Beppu) wrote:
> >
> >   I've been programming in dos for a little bit, and I had come to
> >   the decision that Qedit was about as good as it gets when it comes
> >   to DOS-based text-editors.  However, it seems that a lot of people
> >   love Emacs, and I'm unfamiliar with it, so I was hoping someone
> >   could tell me what is so wonderful about Emacs.
> 
> Emacs is powerful and extensible -- and hard to use.  Try Boxer
> (DOS-based,download from a Simtel* site), or PFE(windows, also from Simtel)
> 
> * e.g. oak.oakland.edu
> 
> Good luck,
> Paul


Emacs is not exactly hard to use. It is only hard to get used to :-)

Once you have learned how to really use Emacs it is actually a very
comfortable and easy to use editor.

Greetings,

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