jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) (09/27/90)
In the book "The Digital COHESION Environment for CASE", DEC writes:
"EMACS or GNU EMACS is a public domain editor.
xedit is a DECwindows-enhanced version of the EMACS editor."
The first sentence is true, but isn't the other one deliberately
misleading?
Johan
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------------------------ "Arms are made for hugging" -------------------------dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) (09/27/90)
In article <1990Sep26.193829.2416@squirrel.mh.nl> Johan Vromans <jv@mh.nl> writes: > In the book "The Digital COHESION Environment for CASE", DEC writes: > "EMACS or GNU EMACS is a public domain editor. > xedit is a DECwindows-enhanced version of the EMACS editor." > The first sentence is true, but isn't the other one deliberately > misleading? The first sentence is also not true. -- dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland dik@cwi.nl
gsh7w@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) (09/27/90)
Johan Vromans <jv@mh.nl> writes: #In the book "The Digital COHESION Environment for CASE", DEC writes: # # "EMACS or GNU EMACS is a public domain editor. # xedit is a DECwindows-enhanced version of the EMACS editor." # #The first sentence is true, but isn't the other one deliberately #misleading? The first sentence is not even true. -- -Greg Hennessy, University of Virginia USPS Mail: Astronomy Department, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475 USA Internet: gsh7w@virginia.edu UUCP: ...!uunet!virginia!gsh7w
avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) (09/27/90)
Not deliberately misleading, but it is false. Send a correction to the address that is probably in the back or mail me the address or phone # and I will. The writer meant dxnotepad. You'd be surprised how many people who write these things call some supposed expert and then use whatever they say as gospel. Again, I am 100% sure it was not meant to mislead. The writer made a mistake and meant dxnotepad which has similar functionality to xedit. (It of course is not a DECwindows version of EMACS at all... that is another story... but it does have EMACS-like commands. GNU Emacs is and X-based EMACS-like editor :-). Fred
jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) (09/27/90)
In article <1990Sep27.023905.29197@decuac.dec.com> avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) writes: > Again, I am 100% sure it was not meant to mislead. The writer made a > mistake and meant dxnotepad which has similar functionality to xedit. dxnotpad is mentioned on itself, a few lines farther. Johan -- Johan Vromans jv@mh.nl via internet backbones Multihouse Automatisering bv uucp: ..!{uunet,hp4nl}!mh.nl!jv Doesburgweg 7, 2803 PL Gouda, The Netherlands phone/fax: +31 1820 62911/62500 ------------------------ "Arms are made for hugging" -------------------------