Re: Editors

[achauhan@warsaw.math.macalstr.edu (Amrit Chauhan)]

Lim Thye Chean writes

> Orca 2.0 editor is very nice in my opinion. Who tells you it is slow?
> It is much faster in my opinion (or is it because of my Zip?), faster
> than microEmacs, stevie, etc.
> >Anyone got any recommendations?
> Orca 2.0 editor!

Wait a minute...you're telling me you like the Orca editor over uEmacs?
Well, let's see....uEmacs doesn't have mouse support, which I think is
fine because the mouse used with Orca 2.0 editor is just SLOW as cold
maple syrup.  I guess Mike threw the human interface guidelines out the
window!  OPEN-APPLE-1,2,3,4 for the file window?  That makes no sense!
It's a lot like ProTERMs human interface....some of those key combinations
make no sense at all!

And Orca fast?  Depends on what you're doing...if you know how to use uEmacs
then, I bet, you can do just as much, just as fast (if not faster) in Emacs.
You also have the power of regular expression searches, and a whole lot of
other features that Orca just can't hack.  You can't open more than one
window at once on the screen at the SAME time, which makes things like 
comparing parts of one file to
another quite difficult (and I do this stuff a lot when I'm working with
charts, and such things when programming), you can't execute shell commands
from within the editor and then also PIPE it into the editor buffers...I mean
there's just so much more that Emacs has that Orca just doesn't.  I'm sorry,
but IMHO, Emacs kicks the living sh*t out of Orca editor v2.0...and if you use
it with GNO, well, there's no comparison....GNO what I mean?

Now, if only we could have lcc.......'chaid! -- (who choses to ignore me) :)

Amrit
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