On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 12:27:27AM +0000, David Warnock wrote: > I definately do not want to start any kind of flame war on this. I > believe that our preferences here are simply due to the what we learnt > first (the best block support I have ever used was in MultiEdit on > msdos). I also believe that as (x)emacs is so very customizable that it > should be able to support both our preferred way of working. The only > dificulty is learning how to do the customization.
Another thing you may want to consider: do you absolutely need some breed of emacs? There are several text editors available for linux, and I'm sure that some try to emulate DOS-style editors. I'm totally guessing, buy there could be a Linux MultiEdit clone available. I'm a keyboard junkie, too... I prefer it to the mouse. <shrug> Good luck! Matt