I have always found the Syntax highlighting in Microemacs very good. In fact I would say, it the Microemacs editor is one of the best programs around. It is hard to believe that it is PD software
Derek ----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy Swenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 3:47 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] (Announce) SuperBasic syntax highlighter for free... > > At 04:51 PM 7/31/2003 +0100, you wrote: > > >I wish I knew how to get it working though. > > > >Malcolm > > MicroEmacs is fairly easy to get started. If I remember correctly, you > just need to have the .rc file set aside at a certain location and then > have an environment variable tell MicroEmacs where to find it. I have all > my environment variables set via my boot script. > > The MicroEmacs documentation is pretty good, esp. the docs that Thierry > wrote on just the QL port. I do find that as MicroEmacs adds more features > (like syntax highlighting), it's bogging down on my Gold Card QL. But on > the Q40, I never noticed any delays. > > A lot of the neat features of MicroEmacs on the QL are only specific to the > QL version and have been added on my Thierry. Adding Menu support, Syntax > Highlighting, spell checking, etc. really make the QL version the best > version out there. > > Tim Swenson > >
