Mail Archives: djgpp/1993/02/05/13:01:39
>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
ericb AT lsid DOT hp DOT com
(206) 335-2495
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