Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 09:32:51 +0100
From: Andreas Busse <andy AT soft-n-hard DOT de>
To: greeneka AT nbnet DOT nb DOT ca, DJGPP AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: EMACS??


 > 
 > What is EMACS?? Is it just an editor or a complete programming 
 > language.  If its a language, is it 32bit, DPMI, support DLL (or DXE), 
 > does it come with or have available graphics libraries and especially 
 > a MOD player. (I'm gearing up to make a tile-based world adventure 
 > game and would really like to do it in protected mode.  DJGPP seems to 
 > have all that I need, except and IDE.)
 > 

Pfff... Emacs is neither just an editor nor just a language :-)
Actually, emacs is something like a lisp interpreter built 
around an editor core. Special modes (such as the C, Lisp, Mail
News etc. modes) are written in elisp, emacs' lisp derivative).

No religion wars here, but emacs is one of the two real editors 
of this world, namely VI and EMACS. Hard to learn, but once you're 
familiar with one of them (ironically vi has an emacs mode and 
emacs has an vi mode :-)) you'll never want to use any other 
editor anymore!
But you'll definitely won't find a MOD player for Emacs.

Cheers,
Andy

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