From: muts@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Subject: Re: Word Processor for Linux (lout) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 17:53:13 GMT
>> On 28 Sep 93 12:47:08 GMT, ellis@nova.gmi.edu (R. Stewart Ellis)
>> said:
RSE> Since joe, jove and emacs are all insert-mode editors that understand
RSE> ^F,^B,^N,^P,^A and ^E, I would arrange them like:
RSE> vi--elvis-----vile-----------------------joe-------------jove---------emacs
Judging by insert-mode and some keybindings (which can be completely
changed anyways in GNU emacs) I think this view is rather simplistic.
A better arrangement is:
-------GNU-emacs-------
joe-------------jove---
vi--elvis-----vile-----
GNU-emacs is of an other order than the rest, with its M-x compile,
the Grand Unified Debugger, tags, ange-ftp, complete configurability
and reprogrammability, so that you can emulate any of the editors that
are more down to earth.
Some may think it is nonsense to read mail and news from within an
'editor', but the same set of keybindings everywhere, and complete
integration with the editor is a great blessing.
-- _______________________________________________________________ Peter Mutsaers, Bunnik (Ut), the Netherlands.