[Jed-users-l] New to list, Introduction

["R. Stewart Ellis" <ellis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 --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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