From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Question about RHIDE and EMACS Date: 14 Mar 1997 14:20:12 GMT Organization: Oxford University, England Lines: 43 Message-ID: <5gbmqs$m9d@news.ox.ac.uk> References: <5gb0om$flg AT freenet-news DOT carleton DOT ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: sable.ox.ac.uk To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Paul Derbyshire (ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA) wrote: : "Salvador Eduardo Tropea " (salvador AT natacha DOT inti DOT edu DOT ar) writes: : > If you have time invested in learning a tool I sugest that don=B4t switc= : > h to : > other because you=B4ll need to learn new things. : Okay, Smartypants, if this inline encoding thing is for plus-127 ascii : characters, then why in the world are these garbles in this message? There : is a garble for every newline. Newlines are ascii 10. There is also a : garble for every apostrophe. I forget the apostrophe's ASCII code but it's : above 32 and below 64. I wish people would ensure their postings were easy : to read, and not assume everyone has the latest version of netscape and : what's more happens to be using it at the time! I netscape through a : pay-fopr provider, but I use freenet for a lot of things in order to : reduce used time and stuff, and freenet doesn't support any of this stuff. : Which is why I find inline HTML and anything else of the sort in newsgroups in : non-binary groups to be quite annoying... Finshed ranting? Good. I already explained to you what quoted-printable is, and while I find it annoying, I find it more annoying that you have the gall to post to a newsgroup to which you are relatively new complaining about something that happens when a regular poster (and contributor of free software) posts helpful comments to the group. You know that this is occurring because of a deficiency in your own newsreading software, and it is not always trivial to turn Q-P off. It isn't that difficult to see what is being said, anyway. : > I think that RHIDE is more easy to use but Emacs is more flexible. : RHIDE is very easy to use. The one nonintuitive thing I can't quite figure : is the way Alt doesn't highlight the menu bar and activate it by itself, : like in every other imitation-windows program. Alt-f brings file menu down : but alt, release, f just inserts an 'f' in the document you're working on, : which is frankly a tad irritating. RHIDE is a clone of Borland's DOS-based IDE, and most of the differences between RHIDE and Windows programs are actually similarities between RHIDE and Borland's IDE. -- George Foot Merton College, Oxford