From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Q: How good is emacs? Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 13:41:23 +0000 Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt Lines: 17 Message-ID: <33D9FE83.10D6@cs.com> References: <01bc994c$a15b2300$eff482c1 AT damien> Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp207.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Richard Birch wrote: > > Ok so I've got RHIDE 1.3 and can't help wandering if EMACS is more user > friendly and as powerful as I've heard. If so, is really worth the hours of > download time? Emacs is an extremely powerful editor, because of its features and its extensibility. It is most definitely worth the time to learn. However, it can be somewhat intimidating for beginning users. I use it extensively. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich, aka Fighteer I | mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com | | Descent 2: The Infinite Abyss - The greatest Internet game of all | | time just got better! This time, you're going all the way down...| ---------------------------------------------------------------------