dsill@NSWC-OAS.arpa (Dave Sill) (06/24/87)
First, I'd like to thank all who replied to my query for MS-DOS emacs recommendations. I received a total of seven replies. Three strongly recommended Epsilon from Lugaru (about $150) citing its speed, features, and concurrent subprocesses. The only other commercial Emacs mentioned was Brief, but the person who mentioned it had never used it. Among the free Emacses, micro-Emacs received four recommendations. The latest versions can handle 43-line EGA displays, large (how large?) files, and macros. Jove was mentioned twice: once favorably and once unfavorably (too slow). Freemacs was mentioned twice also. Both seemed to have experienced the same difficulties I did with lack of documentation. I went and grabbed a copy of bigemacs from simtel20 (pd:[msdos.text-editor]bigemacs.arc and bigemacs.hlp) and have been pretty satisfied with it. It will certainly suffice until I can procure a copy of Epsilon. Thanks again, Dave Sill dsill@nswc-oas.arpa