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- From: goodhear@husc8.harvard.edu (Eric Goodheart)
- Newsgroups: comp.emacs
- Subject: Demacs
- Keywords: Reliability
- Message-ID: <goodhear.725036056@husc.harvard.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 14:54:16 GMT
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- In response to a previous posting, I can safely say that
- demacs does work. Occasionally it hangs when one returns
- from a dos shell (when it cannot find command.com). Despite
- all the fixes that have been posted and which I have applied,
- I haven't found any way around that appart from returning
- immediately to dos and doing something like listing the
- contents of a directory and then returning to demacs... This
- kind of a problem I can live with for now.
-
- As I have indicated in other postings, some of the lisp files
- preloaded in demacs have bugs which can be fixed by loading clean
- lisp files.
-
- There is no question that demacs is not yet as reliable as other
- versions of emacs. But within its unreliablity it is powerful
- enough and predictable enough to be quite a useful tool, its
- shortcomings notwithstanding. If anybody knows about something
- better or more versatile, I would be glad to hear it.
-
- Eric Goodheart
-