From: Kertis Henderson <kah190 AT psu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Rhide or Emacs or
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:02:05 -0800
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David Jenkins wrote:
> 
> Which editor is best for DJGPP I've installed the RHIDE software but
> I've been reading about a lot of bugs in it.I'm a bit worried about
> learning how to use something which doesn't work.As I'm just starting
> out in C I don't want to get confused learning how to use software which
> at this stage of development is buggy.Are these bugs minor??
> I have tried Rhide when it compiled my source it placed the .exe in
> rhide\bin WHY,and can I change this??
> I'm using version 1.1 Jan 20,Is this the latest version and if not is
> the latest version more stable??? Where is it??
> 
> I've read that Emacs is good,is it?? I don't want to DL all those .zip
> files and find it's no good.
> Or is there some other frontend software I can use with DJGPP??


Somebody will probably get upset, but I like to use DOS' edit.com.  It
has all of the search features that I ever use, including search,
replace, mutiple files, and carried indentation.  I use a small
emacs-like program called "M" for makefiles.  I have no idea where I
picked this up from, however.


Kertis Henderson
kah190 AT psu DOT edu