Saturday April 29 1995, Ronald Van Iwaarden writes to Jerry McBride:

 M>> You might not have noticed it yet, but the 'IDE' *is* there.
 M>> It is the EMACS editor!

 JM>> I have emacs and well... it's not what I wold call IDE! A
 JM>> very cumbersome text editor, yes... IDE... no.

 RVI> Well, maybe you just didn't look far enough.  If you do "-X
 RVI> compile", it will start a compilation session in another
window for you.
 RVI> You can then use "control-X `" to skip from error to
error.  ALso, you
 RVI> can do "-X gdb" and start a debugging session
in a window which will
 RVI> follow the source code in another window.  It really is a fairly powerful
 RVI> IDE.

I had a play with EMACS and although it is very powerful/configurable I
found it difficult to use - mainly because of the ESC key. If there was a
way to configure the META key as ALT instead of ESC, it would be much
better... Do you know any way to do this?

John

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