Re: is it really worth the time to go from vi to emacs?

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From: James Youngman
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:00

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In article <4quo35$8qv@murrow.corp.sgi.com>, brucet@leviathan.engr.sgi.com 
says...

>The main problem I have with using emacs as a development/working
>environment is that it isn't multithreaded.  If you try to read news or
>fontify a large buffer, etc, all other work will come to a halt.  Is
>multithreading planned in the next couple of years for (X)Emacs?

I, too, find that nowadays merely one Emacs is not enough
to satisfy my addiction; I am frequently seen with at least 
two open.

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From: JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman)
Subject: Re: is it really worth the time to go from vi to emacs?
Date: 1996/06/28
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