3 Nov
2011
3 Nov
'11
2:28 p.m.
On 11/03/2011 12:19 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
Fair point, but in support work, which is what I mainly do, you pretty
much have to use whatever tools are already there on your customers'
machines.
Perfectly understandable.
I imagine EMACS Lisp is not much use outside of the
context of using
and customising Emacs, for instance - is that fair? I don't use Emacs.
I've learned too many text editors and when I first met Emacs it was
part of an expensive OS of limited application; I mainly worked with
DOS and Macs, on which it was not available.
There have been many Emacsen available for DOS since its very early days.
Some free, some commercial, most very good. Just FYI. Mind, for 15y I did carry around a small but
slowly-growing library of
write-protected disks which contained a whole assortment of tools for
me to use - from Norton to anti-virus scanners to various handy little
extra tools.
I did the exact same thing back when I supported DOS installations. :)
As for editors, when MS-DOS 5.0 came out, I was able
to junk Edlin and
go to EDIT.EXE - and I really /really/ liked it. It is still one of my
very favourite text editors to this day. Never found a Linux editor
quite as good, although SETedit came very close - but it is no longer
maintained and doesn't run on modern distros. This makes me very sad.
It looks like setedit's last release was less than a year ago...?
Have you seen v0.5.7?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA