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Article #189691To Buy or Not to Buy ??
From: Dorothy Carney
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 1990 14:48
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 1990 14:48
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gnu is new to us ... we are still in the Dark Ages of FORTRAN and mainframes here. Now that we are getting started in Unix, we are facing lots of learning curves and it is hard getting our programmers to change their ways. One complaint we hear is about the standard Unix editor, vi. Our VAX/VMS cadre wants something like EDT or EVE. So, we are considering EMACS. Richard Stallman clearly states that gnu emacs should be FREE. So here is my question: To Buy or Not ... that is, if we want EDT emulation, should we buy an emacs package such as Uniworks CCA EMACS or UniPress Emacs? I would like to hear both sides ... so if your site has bought, please tell why & tell how it has worked out. If you have gone freeware, have you made some mod's and has that taken much effort? Experience from a site which converted grumpy programmers from using a mainframe full-screen editor such as EDT/EVE will be very helpful. Please reply by mail to: uudot@vega.lerc.nasa.gov Thanks for your replies.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103b8b,1a4ac0cc2dbf41e4,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103b8b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-12-12 06:48:36 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!eagle!news From: uudot@vega.lerc.nasa.gov (Dorothy Carney) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Subject: To Buy or Not to Buy ?? Message-ID: <1990Dec12.144836.14065@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> Date: 12 Dec 90 14:48:36 GMT Reply-To: uudot@vega.lerc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center Lines: 19 Posted: Wed Dec 12 15:48:36 1990 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4