From:	mschulter AT DOT value DOT net (M. Schulter)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Q: How good is emacs?
Date:	25 Jul 1997 23:31:29 GMT
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Richard Birch (richardbirch AT dial DOT pipex DOT com) 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?
: 
: <richardbirch AT dial DOT pipex DOT com>

Hi, there.

To keep this close to topic <grin>, please let me focus on the advantages
of GNU Emacs 19.3x for DOS as a programming environment for DJGPP and
related programs.

Personally I find it a _sensational_ environment for C, PostScript, or the
new DJGPP TeX. One big advantage is that there are Emacs-related packages
like AUCTeX that the DJGPP Emacs makes available to DOS users.

Also, as Eli Zaretskii might point out, a big advantage of Emacs is
portability: it runs not only on DOS, but on UNIX, VMS, and other
platforms.

Of course, if I weren't highly inclined to a text-based interface, and
also a newcomer to C and TeX as opposed to someone already accustomed to a
different kind of IDE, I might have another opinion <grin>.

Most respectfully,

Margo Schulter
mschulter AT value DOT net

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