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From: john.mccabe@emrad.ns.com (John McCabe)
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Subject: Re: cross-platform source code editor
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On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:26:14 +0100,
=?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E1rio_Amado_Alves?= <maa@liacc.up.pt> wrote:

>"As a matter of interest, what is it in particular that you [John] don't
>like [about Emacs]? It may be that you have missed something in the
>configuration, or an additional package, that may improve your view of
>it."
>
>Like John I am an Emacs disliker.

The other John you mean :-)

>I agree with him that what Emacs gives back does not compensate the
>learning effort.

Obviously I disagree, but I have been using Emacs for about 10 years
starting from when it was either Emacs or Vi on SunOS. Now that the
full implementation has been available for Windows for a number of
years, I find it indispensable!

>One thing I dislike is exactly the fact that it is never configured
>right, and it is not easy to (re)configure and/or add packages.

I'm not sure what you mean by configure here. Emacs is almost
infinitely configrable. Perhaps this is its downfall in your view?

>However it is still the best free editor for Ada on Linux, which is
>funny to say the least. On Windows AdaGIDE rules.

Why not Emacs on Windows? I have AdaGIDE (6.26) and find it seriously
lacking compared to Emacs. How, for example, do you configure AdaGIDE
to use a non-GNAT compiler?