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In article <Bx5yFE.7v6@CAM.ORG> vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:
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>    - It's slow to load

    It runs pretty quickly from my hard drive and Zip 8/16.  I use stevie
for small files, but uemacs loads files in faster than stevie.  You can
set it to restart from memory as well.  Read the massive documentation,
it is well worth it!  BTW, does anyone have properly formatted documentation
for uEmacs 3.11c?  The file that came with the upload on comp.binaries seemed
to be formatted for >80 columns.  The 3.11 docs are OK.

>    - Sometimes it causes a GNO system panic (red screen) reporting
>      "Expressload error $0201". Sure, I need to buy another meg
>      (desperately!), but still, does it have to crash?!

    This happened to me only twice in uemacs, ever.  I don't know if it's a
problem with uemacs or with the shell, or something else getting in the way.
True, uemacs isn't without its bugs, but it works great 99.99% of the time.

>    - UNIX style commands provide power, but are nothing like traditional
>      Apple II editor commands. Hard to get used to.

    I'll send you my emacs.rc file which binds a lot of the functions to
standard Apple II and Appleworks keys.  The learning curve is steep at first,
but like I pointed out above, read the manual!  uemacs is extremely flexible
and customizable.  I can send you a copy of my uemacs-based UNIX mail reader
as an example.

>    - Doesn't work over the modem port and needs GNO's kbd buffer and
>      cursor turned off.

    Morgan says he's basically had enough of making uemacs do proper screen
writes (rather than directly to video memory) and still run at an acceptable
speed.  Someone (Soenke?) mentioned there was an 'xemacs' around that works
over a terminal.
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