Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 08:38:47 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Myles Barrett Williams <mwilliam AT cs DOT utk DOT edu>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: IDE for DJGPP?


On 24 Sep 1995, Myles Barrett Williams wrote:

> It's not a question of what's wrong with Emacs, rather what is wrong with
> DOS.  There is no multitasking, so Emacs is not as useful for development
> as it is under Unix.

The same limitation afflicts *any* DOS-based IDE, so Emacs is as useful 
in this area as the other editors.  (Actually, there are some DOS editors
which allow multitasking--in fact I work with an Emacs clone which does 
just that--but as they are commercial, I won't advertise them here.  RMS 
once suggested me to write a DOS multitasking module which will make 
Emacs multitask under DOS, but I don't have enough time.  Anybody?)  
Anyway, the DOS port does support compiling from within the editor and 
stepping through error messages, which IMHO allows you to use it as 
development environment.

> 'sides, it's not helpful to advise someone to learn a new OS to remedy a
> problem that's not OS specific.

Did I advise to learn a new OS?  I was talking about DOS port of Emacs; 
no need to switch to another OS to use it.