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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: GPS - A new kind of IDE?
Date: 14 May 2002 07:16:14 -0700
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john.nospam@nospamassen.nospamdemon.co.uk (John McCabe) wrote in message news:<3ce0d415.4655263@news.demon.co.uk>...
> On Fri, 10 May 2002 15:18:03 GMT, Rajat Datta <rajat@austin.rr.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >Well, given--from what little we know--that the editor component is
> >replaceable with emacs
> 
> But will you lose any functionality by using Emacs instead of the
> integral editor? E.g, with Visual C++ you can use Emacs, but you lose
> tons of the functionality unless you start running VisEmacs with it.

Given that GPS is intended as a major upgrade for current GLIDE users,
who of course are used to EMACS, I think you can safely assume the
answer to this one. The architecture is quite open and can support
multiple editors with full functionality. The trouble with Visual C++
is that it is a closed architecture, so of course it is much harder
to integrate other editors fully.