Re: Editors

[robm@ecr.mu.OZ.AU (Robert Mueller)]

In article <9211160348.AA07941@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca>, 90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (TAO  BRIAN T) writes:
> The following revelation escaped Robert Mueller's lips:
> > 
> > Microemacs is quite nice, but it's so SLOW loading files!!
> > I don't want to wait years just to load my asm source.
> 
>     How big are your source files?!?  uemacs is on the slow side when
> loading files compared to other editors, but it isn't *that* slow.  It
> has so many other features that make up for this one shortcoming.  Like
> being able to turn it into a mail reader, for instance.  ;-)

I usually work with relatively large asm source files that sometimes,
though rarely, exceed 64K. The problem is that I often switch between
the shell and the editor so reloading a file quickly is a great help.
The editor I currently use is ROSE, purely for shear speed. I don't
need hundreds of fancy commands that I'll never use, I prefer a FAST
editor with the basic search and replace commands. ROSE is also handy
for asm source with things like keypad-= ontop of a label jumping to
the piece of code corresponding to that label.

Rob
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