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From: Jim Sculley
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 12:22

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Steve wrote:
> Tim O'Neil <bwana@whirrr.org> wrote in message 
> 
> 
>>This is just another shining example of why emacs is the worlds
>>greatest editor/ide: it replaces tabs with spaces. With one key
>>stroke I get a tab consisting of any number of spaces I choose
>>in its initialization file. And the width changes automatically
>>depending on the type of file I'm editing.
> 
> 
> So do many other modern editors and they require less of a learning curve.
> 
> If jedit was faster and had nicer fonts on linux I would dump emacs in a heart beat.

Have you tried using the anti-aliasing and fractional font metrics 
options?  I found the jEdit editor font quite usable once those were 
enabled?

Jim S.

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