From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Q: How good is emacs?
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 13:41:23 +0000
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Richard Birch wrote:
> 
> Ok so I've got RHIDE 1.3 and can't help wandering if EMACS is more user
> friendly and as powerful as I've heard. If so, is really worth the hours of
> download time?

Emacs is an extremely powerful editor, because of its features and its
extensibility.  It is most definitely worth the time to learn.  However,
it can be somewhat intimidating for beginning users.  I use it
extensively.

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