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Raj <llegends2 AT prodigy DOT net> wrote in message
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>
> Well, Grasp and DFE95 both look like great tools...I have them both
working,
> and both have good unique features. Which one I stick with is yet to be
> determined -- thanks for all the input.
>
Well... not to muddy the waters.. but I use emacs for these reasons:
1. It's available for, and provides the same user interface both on
Windows and all known flavors of UNIX. Not needing to mentally
"shift gears" when moving from platform to platform.
2. Emacs has modes for editing a plethora of languages and file types.
It understands shell scripts Makefiles, and source code for Ada, C,
etc., etc. It provides syntax highlighting, the ability to compile
and build from within the editor, and to jump to the declaration
of an identifier (even if it's in a different file), and to provide
a list of references to an identifier, for some languages.
3. Emacs is extensible, so that any of the described features can be
implemented for other languages, or enhanced to suit your preferences.
4. Emacs has a desktop mode that remembers the file(s) on which you were
working, the search strings you were using, etc., etc.
5. Emacs is free, and very well supported by the user community -- mail
lists, FAQs, etc., etc.
6. Its GNU.
It's available for Win32 at:
ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/ntemacs/20.4/
You would want (as a minimum):
emacs-20.4-bin-i386.tar.gz
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