From: Eric Backus <ericb AT lsid DOT hp DOT com>
Subject: Re: Programmers' editor
To: bobp AT hal DOT com
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 93 9:56:03 PST
Cc: iis!arnstein AT Sun DOT COM, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Mailer: Elm [revision: 66.25]

>What text editor you you prefer for software development?  I'm looking for the
>best editor that
>     1.  Costs nothing,
>     2.  Runs under MS-DOS (MS Windows 3.1 would be nice),
>     3.  Is robust and dependable.

As others have said, DEmacs is the only way to go, unless you NEED it
to run under Windows.


Bob P. writes:
> I have used demacs. It was very slow on my machine (40 Mhz 386 with
> 8meg). Slow enough to be unusable by me.

Strange.  I have a 33 MHz 386 with 4 Meg.  I find DEmacs to be quite
responsive.  I remember being shocked at just how fast it was.  The
ONLY problem I have with it is the startup time which is a little
slower than I'd like.  Do you have a decent disk cacheing program
installed?  Do you have enough free memory to avoid swapping a big
program like DEmacs?
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				Eric Backus
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