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Hi Emacs-loving-folks,

In article <1992Dec20.173946.20445@super.org> pcolsen@super.org (Peter C Olsen) writes:
>
>Does DEMACS work --- reliably?  I would appreciate email from anyone
>who has experience, either way. I have been trying to use DEMACS, but
>I have been unable to get it to work reliably.  It seems to be very
>sensitive to other software, either refusing to run or running
>"poorly" --- e.g. ignoring characters or doubling them.  Then, when it
>appears to be running well, it often hangs at odd times, losing my
>recent work.  Emacs is my favorite editor (by far) in the unix
>environment, and I had hoped to use it extensively in DOS, but, so
>far, I am still relying on BRIEF simply because I can't depend on
>DEMACS.
>
>Peter

About a week back I got a copy of DEMACS from the UC Berkely ftp site and
have been using it really successfully. I find that it is great.
Eventhough I did not attempt at doing a full QA of the S/W, I did use it
reasonably well. I have to admit that I was using the S/W with a
little bit of caution as you do with any new S/W. I don't claim that
it is perfect or anything, but in my opinion it looked pretty stable.

Like, once I used it for one full day from the morning to evening without
getting out of the Emacs session and it went fine. I used all the basic
editing features like yank, put, indent, enhanced-dired, etc.  At times I had
more than 10 buffers( read files ) during the session. I even did compilations
from within the demacs session. I ran the Borland C++ 3.1 'bcc' command
line compiler from within demacs and it went fine. Actually I used most of the
main editing features that a programmer will be using in his day-to-day
work.

Of course, all of us using the demacs will feel much more secure if someone
could give us some QA results, or directs us to some kind of a QA suite
which we can run for ourselves and feel secure.

Thanks,

Easwaran
(If you are emailing to me, please do send a copy to the following address
too :      
	easwar@ravitech.com
)

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