On Thu, 24 May 2001, Andrew Reilly wrote:

> There are two equally valid answers, and they have existed for a
> _very_ long time.  These are:
> 
> 1) Unix (with vi or some other editor)

You mean working at the shell level?
Is it possible to integrate vi with compilation & debugging?
e.g.
- click on compiler error message to jump to that line in editor
- single-stepping though source in the editor.

>   Some people try to
> use emacs as the editor for 1), but that doesn't work as well as
> (2), because it loses some of the multi-buffer bennefits of
> emacs, and because emacs tends to be fairly slow to start up.

In ye olde terminal days, emacs would just suspend (^Z) when not in use.


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