Re: newbie question re text editors

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From: Jon Guyer
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 20:01

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In article <B679E23D.10AB%developer.NO.SPAM@plate.net>, Harry Plate 
<developer.NO.SPAM@plate.net> wrote:

> I chk'd out 'alpha' some time ago, and turned away w/o trying it for the
> following reasons:
> 
> 1) tcl based; could NOT port my old lisp functions
> 
> 2) tcl based; every thing that I've had experience with that was based on
> tcl was very difficult to keep running; update a library, and everything
> breaks; TOO MUCH hacking going on there for me.

Crikey! It's just a language. I just got done schooling a Tcl biggot who 
was ranting about his perception of flaws in AppleScript. IT'S JUST A 
LANGUAGE. If it does what you need, use it. If it doesn't, don't.

Alpha is based on Tcl. 
Alpha is not emacs.

Alpha does share some bindings with emacs, as well as a philosophy of 
massive user customizability. The integration with CodeWarrior has been 
a bit flakey for the last few releases of Alpha, but I'm working on it.

-- 
Jonathan E. Guyer

<http://www.his.com/jguyer/>

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