[Tfug] Holy Wars!

Robert Hunter hunter at tfug.org
Wed Mar 12 19:47:52 MST 2008


Honestly, I can't tell the difference anymore in terms of speed
betweem emacs and what might have been traditionally considered
"faster" editors.  However, if you are looking for an editor that can
chew up your CPU, I'm sure they exist!


On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Robert Hunter <hunter at tfug.org> wrote:
>
>  > Lest we, for lack of history, malign the one and
>  > true editor:
>  >
>  > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs
>
>  Under *DOS*, I fell in love with Brief (inspired by
>  EMACS but probably 100X faster!)
>
>  Unfortunately, Borland (Inprise?) never released
>  it after buying it from Solution Systems...  :<
>  (it has some nasty timing loops that just don't
>  work well on machines running 100-1000X faster
>  than the original machines on which it ran  :< )
>
>
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