From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Question about RHIDE and EMACS
Date: 14 Mar 1997 08:03:34 GMT
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"Salvador Eduardo Tropea " (salvador AT natacha DOT inti DOT edu DOT ar) writes:
> David McKee <david DOT mckee AT rtp DOT gtegsc DOT com> wrote:
> 
>> I was wondering if anyone had any specific technical opinions 
>> on which development environment was "better".  I have recently 
>> learned xemacs on my SUN workstation at work and love it.  Still,
>> if RHIDE is easy and integrated and intuitive, I certainly would
>> like to know.  Thank you in advance.
>  
>   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...

>   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.
--
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    `*'  bulk candy section...because variety is the spice of life... [me]
Paul Derbyshire ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca, http://chat.carleton.ca/~pderbysh