2 Mar 2012 19:11
[Jed-users-l] New to list, Introduction
R. Stewart Ellis <ellis <at> kettering.edu>
2012-03-02 18:11:44 GMT
2012-03-02 18:11:44 GMT
I am new to the list. I have been aware of jed for years, but have stuck to jove since I taught myself C by porting it to 286 Xenix Sys. III on an Intel development system in about 1986. My first computer, a Seequa Chameleon, which I purchased in 1983, came with Perfect Writer which consisted of an emacs subset text editor and a scribe subset formatter to generate docs. Jove had a full enough subset of features to satisfy me for the last 25+ years: C, fill, indent, text ,abbrev and paren-match modes; ctags and next-error, macro recording and naming, regex, command completion, and magic window help functions, as well as a small active development community, that has since disappeared as far as I know. Over the years, I kept trying other emacsen, but the lack of magic help windows was always a non-starter, even though the completeness of jed has always impressed me. (I do not know which other emacs does it, but in jove, when you do anything that sends prompts to the user, such as listing available commands or variables, the 'typeout' writes over the editing screens with a --(Continue reading)more-- at the bottom. SPC until the output drains, then the magic window disappears and the editing windows are restored). Recently, the difficulty with jove's handling of NULL chars as line terminators has pushed me over the edge. In re-reviewing emacs subsets I discovered that jed seems to be the only one that has an active community, and that it has grown a similar feature to magic windows in the form of view.sl which lets you page down in help with a spacebar and restore the previous screen layout without having to do a bunch of window manipulation commands. I have read all the archived messages on the list and have grepped the code and read most of the docs. As I run into issues I will post to the list.
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