Re: Should I use EMACS?

Emacs is a powerful and extensible (programmatically and through adding in
new modes) text editor that is practically an operating system by itself.
It has a steep learning curve, but imo is well worth it. It has various
modes including several versions of HTML mode. (I don't personally find
HTML mode useful, but I do use Emacs as one of my web development tools).

To be able to use it at a newbie level isnt too difficult. There is really
no way to compare MSWord to Emacs. One is a word processor, the other is a
highly extensible and programmable text editor geared towards programmers.
One would never replace the other...they are completely different creatures.

If you are comfortable using the tools you are using, I would tend to
suggest sticking to them. Though there is a windows port (and Mac), it is
very much a unix type of tool with a unix type interface. If you're not a
command line type person, you probably won't like it.

Kayla (thinking this may not have been the answer you were looking for....)


At 08:38 PM 6/12/98 +0100, David Meadows wrote:
>EMACS has been favourably mentioned in recent posts to various HWG lists.
>I'm afraid I know nothing of it, but it seems to be highly recommended by
>it's users.
>
>So now I'm wondering why it has such a fanatical following. Can somebody who
>uses it to write HTML documents tell me something about it and explain why
>they think it's so good?
>
>Specifically, can somebody give a solid reason for me to switch from MS Word
>(7) to EMACS? If it's so good, what will it offer me that Word doesn't?
>
>There is a Windows 95 port of EMACS, right? (I understand that some of you
>are very anti-MS Windows, but please humour me and assume that I can't
>switch to UNIX because my place of work is committed to Windows.)
>
>
>David Meadows
>[ Technical Writer | Information Developer ]
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>david(at)goldenheroes.softnet.co.uk
>
>"Imagination is like the sun. The sun has a light which is not
> tangible; but which, nevertheless, may set a house on fire."
>        -- Paracelsus
>
>
>
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