Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 12:12:53 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: DT2 cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: rhide vs. emacs In-Reply-To: <3661e841.0@ruby.hknet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, DT2 wrote: > I'm a newbie, just installed DJGPP and Rhide, etc. etc. and was curious: > what are the relative advantages of Rhide vs. Emacs? Is one better than the > other? Careful: you risk sparking an editor war here ;-). Each one of these two packages has its advantages and disadvantages. RHIDE is smaller, very similar to Borland's IDE, and (according to some people) easier to use. Rhide also has an integrated debugger for DJGPP programs, which is important on DOS (on Windows you can always run a debugger in a separate DOS box). Emacs is larger (20MB on disk), but has much more features, including support for every programming language you could think of. It is also available on every platform you will ever meet, so you if you stick with it, you will never again need to learn another editor. Emacs is developed by a large group of contributors world-wide, so IMHO it gains new features much faster. How all those measure up is up to you to decide.