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From: Oliver Steele <ames!ucbcad!rutgers.edu!mcnc!dopey!steele>
To: mips!holland@rutgers.edu

>In article <696@thorin.cs.unc.edu> steele@thorin.UUCP (Oliver Steele) writes:
>>gleicher@duke.cs.duke.edu (Michael Gleicher) writes:
>>>	The editor is so bad it isn't worth mentioning. Little things
>>>	like a key to go to the end of a line, clear to end of line.
>>
>>You are stuck with it (in fact, that's one of the advantages of LSC
>>as a development system).  If you don't like the editor, you really
>>would have been better off buying any other system except perhaps MPW.
>
>Please elaborate on your gripes with MPW.  I was considering this and
>would like to know about any problems or deficiencies that you are aware
>of.

It wasn't a categorical gripe; it's just that MPW also has an integrated
editor and it's easier to use that editor than another if you're using MPW
 (MultiFinder will probably change this, but no more than it has changed
it for LSC).  Since Mr. Gleicher objected to the integration of the editor
with LSC, since MPW has an editor that is just as integrated, and since
MPW doesn't have even as many cmd-key equivalents as the LSC editor does,
I didn't think that he would find it preferrable.

I don't really have any gripes with MPW.  It's slower than LSC and doesn't
do as much for you automatically, but then I don't think it could be
better in either respect given that it's a more unix-type environment.
When I program on Suns and Vaxen I wish I had LSC on them for C
programming, but I wish I had more MPW-style editing in the shell.  I
couldn't see recommending another C environment besides LSC and MPW, but I
think it's just a question of personal taste between the two.

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