-=> Quoting Paul Walker to Jan Olsen <=-
 JO> Well, there is EMacs - I've been told that it's very good, but
 JO> honestly... I have my doubts... At least compared to TSE!!!
 PW> It's ... usable, just, but compared to QEdit...
 While I like QEDIT and TSE a fair bit and use them almost
 exclusively on the PC neither holds a candle to EMACS. QEDIT and
 TSE are moderately programmable editors while EMACS is best
 thought of as a close cousin of the LISP programming language
 customized to "look like an editor" ;-) Essentially EMACS is a
 full featured string oriented programming language which at its
 simplest level appears as if it is a text editor. However I
 fully understand why that might not be apparent to you. It is a
 complex enough environment that unless you have ready and
 continuous access to experienced, sophisticated EMACS users when
 you are learning it you would have to be almost supernaturally
 fortunate to even begin to guess at its real capabilities and
 potential. When I first "met" EMACS I didn't think much of it
 either but I had the excellent fortune of having an experienced
 EMACS "whiz" to teach me to use it and while I never became
 anywhere as good as my instructor with it I came to really like
 (and miss) it in other environments. The other place where an
 experienced user can really help out enormously is in
 customizing the setup of EMACS for your installation's
 requirements. It is very configurable, to the point where I have
 seen setups running EMACS where you would be hard pressed to
 guess that was the editor "under the covers" ;-)
 -- Regards --
    Sid Lee (FIDO - 1:134/122,  Internet - sidlee@agt.net)
 
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