From: quacci AT vera DOT com (jon)
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Subject: Re: Emacs or RHide
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 17:49:33 GMT
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On Thu, 08 May 1997 22:35:59 -0500, "J. Ellis" <cellis AT voyageur DOT ca>
wrote:

>What's so great about Emacs anyway?  

If you are willing to spend a few months or a year or so to really get
in to it, it'll have the edge on DOS's EDIT. Spend some more time, and
you can do everything from read newsgroups to clean up directories
from emacs. 

If this stuff is your life, you might want to get to know emacs. I use
emacs at work on a Solaris system, but definitely prefer Rhide on my
PC at home. I mean, why start up a freight-train when you can just
walk next door? Rhide is good enough, and straightforward enough that
it doesn't require a lot of effort.

My only problem with RHide is printing files that it saves- you can't
print (that I know of) from within Rhide, and the tabs Rhide uses seem
to translate badly when I directly print the source files. I have work
arounds; it isn't a big problem.

>Can you
>even compile programs from within Emacs? 

Yes. There isn't much you can't do from emacs.