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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT natacha DOT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
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To: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire), ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA,
        djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 15:54:44 +0000
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Subject: Re: Question about RHIDE and EMACS

ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire) wrote:
> "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...
  Count down man, this mail had a problem, this day I was forced to use 
another terminal in my job, one with spanish keyboard so I forget that the key 
where the apostrophe is in the spanish kbd have a reverse apostrophe. About 
new-lines I don't understand what a hell the e-mailer did because In my console 
the e-mail looked OK when I got it from the net.

> 
> >   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.

  I find irritating the "ALT jumps to menu" because if I press ALT and I want 
to go back is too late. If wonder if I'm enough fast to take a desition while 
presing 2 keys the answer is yes.
  So as other things is a question of how you are acustomed.

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