Mail Archives: djgpp/1993/02/07/18:59:36
>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.
Eric> As others have said, DEmacs is the only way to go, unless you NEED it
Eric> to run under Windows.
Second ! Or third, or fourth :-)
Eric> 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.
Eric> Strange. I have a 33 MHz 386 with 4 Meg. I find DEmacs to be quite
Eric> responsive. I remember being shocked at just how fast it was. The
Eric> ONLY problem I have with it is the startup time which is a little
Eric> slower than I'd like. Do you have a decent disk cacheing program
Eric> installed? Do you have enough free memory to avoid swapping a big
Eric> program like DEmacs?
I run it on a 16 MHz 386 with 8 Meg ! With 2 Meg of SMARTDRV (dumb as it
may be :-) DEMACS does just fine. And on top of that, I'm actually running
the two byte Japanese nemacs version. I agree it is not as fast as on a
real computer ;-{)} but ....
I used to use FREEMACS, but now I only use that when I want column position
for entering SNOBOL programs :-)
Jim
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