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In article <DAVIS.92Nov22122214@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu  (John E. Davis) writes:
>
>Am I wrong in assuming that if GNU emacs were available for ALL msdos
>machines, with the same power that it has on unix machines, then there would
>be less talk about BRIEF and CRISP?  It is not my intention to start a flame
>war; rather, I'd just like to understand the existing flame war that is
>subtly going on.  It is my understanding that because of it is impossible to
>port GNU emacs to say my XT, BRIEF, CRISP, EPSILON, and others have stepped in
>to fulfill this need.

Smile, Smile, GNU Emacs is a great editor, however people still prefer
to be able to 'see what they mark', 'not be restricted with line lengths',
'not break out of search mode if you happen to want to center the selected 
line', 'still be able to have some memory for other programs _while_ using 
EMACS ', 'not have to use the marked text in the very next command' etc etc. 

Oh Ya, some not so enlightened like us do consider ease of use a criterion too 
with all those complicated Ctrl key combinations of EMACS.

Often heard phrase in the EMACS world: Yes EMACS can do it, a little bit of
ELISP programing, with this add on package in this revision in that 
implementation :-). Boy, that is simple.

Please leave this newsgroup for the whimpy editors like JOE, BRIEF, QEDIT, 
etc.

P.S: There is not much you can do in EMACS that you cannot do in CRISP, albeit
in a much simple fashion and without doing all that ELISP programming. And yes,
CRISP is on UNIX, and has a C as well as a lisp like macro language :-)

-- 
Rohit Mehrotra
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