Date: Tue, 1 Nov 94 17:02:46 GMT
From: dolan AT fnoc DOT navy DOT mil (Kent Dolan)
To: davis AT amy DOT tch DOT harvard DOT edu
Subject: Re: demacs+djgpp
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

John E. Davis said:
> In addition, you might want to look into using JED.  It is _much_
> smaller and faster than Emacs while providing a close emacs emulation.

Oh, I do, I do.  But it hasn't worked out as my full time editor, to my
grief as a decade long emacs fan (I actually bought and paid for the
paper emacs manual, to help gauge my devotion).  I work in a mixed
environment, sometimes in vanilla DOS, sometimes booted up on a Novell
LAN, imitating vanilla DOS, to the best of my understanding..

JED refuses to start up in the second case, complaining that I need to be
in real mode.

So I end up using JED only when it is worth the hassle to reboot into
vanilla DOS to edit a file.

Which means only when I have a really huge file none of my other editors
will touch.

At which times JED is a lifesaver.

But only then.

Xanthian.
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