Re: two more emacs questions

["vb" <vb@vsbe.com>]

>>>> Another emacs annoyance (at least for us, unfortunate users of other,
>>>> less priviledged editors ;-)) is its handling of undo. It does not
>>>
>>> May I ask which editor?
>>>
>>
>> crisp (as in www.crisp.com) has been doing this for at least twelve
>> years now...
>>
>
> Looks nice and capable, so why do you want to play with some other
> editor?  Emacs can't do any miracles either (except some small,
> uplifting ones, you might have seen my organisation header 8-).
>
> In earnest, I think this is partly a matter of taste and style, some
> prefer an interface with strong visual hints and some prefer a more
> abstract approach.
>
> Nothing to argue about.
>

well, a big difference is that emacs is free and crisp costs money, I moved 
departments in the company and just was not ready fork out my own $300 or 
whatever it is these days for the office use. Crisp's colorization, macro 
language and customization flexibility in my opinion exceeds that of emacs. 
After a few weeks of macking around with Lisp and asking questions (and 
getting prompt and to the point answers!) on this forum I got myself more or 
less comfortable with emacs, but I still think Crisp is a superior product.

OTOH emacs is available pretty much anywhere, and for free, being able to 
use it efficiently is a good skill after all :-)

cheers,
/vb

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>
>    H. Dieter Wilhelm
>    Darmstadt, Germany
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