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Re: Email Editors
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Sun, 4 Oct 1998 15:50:48 GMT
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> Sounds cool. How does it compare to Emacs in powerfulness? (I've never
> used either, but demos I've seen of Emacs underwhelmed me from the
> complexities of Ctrl-this Ctrl-that.)
It's not nearly as powerful as emacs -- it doesn't have any scripting
capabilities (that I am aware of, at least). If I didn't already know the
wordstare commands, I probably wouldn't use it.
When I first started getting into Linux/Unix, I looked desperately for an
editor that made sense to me, and this is what I found. I've since had to
learn vi (because it's always there!) but the concept of a text editor in
which you have to enter a special mode to actually edit text still weirds me
out.
It is pretty configurable, though. And ships with a pico emulation mode
(jpico) and an emacs-like mode (jmacs).
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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