mg@unirot.UUCP (Mike Gallaher) (11/05/86)
From: iscuva::tektronix!decvax!ernie.berkeley.edu!ucbvax!phr@reed.uucp >* How do they compare in features and performance? GNU Emacs: the best Unix Emacs around Wrong! What was the last version of Unipress Emacs you used, Paul? Unipress: has some nice features and a somewhat different flavor from GNU. A few people prefer it. Many of them have personal connections with Unipress. Come on now. I've long since sold all the copies I can to my mother, my wife, and all her relatives. We still get too much mail from active hackers and too many new users every month for this theory to be correct. >* How is the support? Vendor support: Unipress: supposedly pretty good if you're on a widely used system (e.g. VAX). Others: conceivably but you're more or less stuck with the vendor. Heaven help you if you need custom work or a port there's not much demand for. This is one reason why many commercial users have abandoned Unipress. Anyone who has a complaint about Unipress Emacs or the support they get should send mail about it to ...!rutgers!unipress!emacs. If that doesn't get any response, post it to the net! No company in its right mind would ignore publicity like that. Yes, custom work costs, but you get what you pay for. For what it's worth, V2.10 is the most portable "big" Emacs I've seen. Nowadays we have no trouble bringing V2.10 up on any Unix machine; even the "unix-like" systems (btw I classify HP-UX on the HP9000/500 as such) usually just take some tweaking to compensate for strange filesystems, etc. We've never had to rewrite crt0 on any machine, for instance, though I still have nightmares about segmented address spaces. Paul Rubin Note: I work for the GNU project sometimes but I think this is reasonably unbiased. Paul, you couldn't be as unbiased as I am :-). Mike Gallaher Emacs Hacker Boss Unipress Software