I used epsilon for all my programming work until I discovered vi in '93. It ran on dos, and OS/2. United had something similar in uemacs.
I used EEL the extension language to write a log of all I did to help refreshing my memory when I filled by time sheet. It was a great editor with a built in shell, windowing and whatnot.
Both on DOS and OS/2 I ran the MKS Toolkit to emulate a Unix environment and it fit right in. Happy user. No idea it was still on sale.
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#12For some reason, I find it gratifying that this operation has been in business (more or less) for 32 years.
I can feel a strong sense of pride in the application he's built and still seeing it out there. Whatever few orders he gets is essentially keeping the site running and providing online support to those few still using his wares.
Each order gets you copies for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, OS/2 and DOS versions. Must be fun to have a long-standing project that you can go to that keeps you in touch with both newer and older OSes too.
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#13We changed the title from “A mighty editor still being sold after 30 years for $250”, which breaks the HN guidelines for editorializing. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And now the headline provides absolutely no indication of why it's an interesting link. Sigh.
Why not just strike "mighty" and leave it as "An editor still being sold after 30 years for $250"?
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#14We changed the title from “A mighty editor still being sold after 30 years for $250”, which breaks the HN guidelines for editorializing. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And now the headline provides absolutely no indication of why it's an interesting link. Sigh. Why not just strike "mighty" and leave it as "An editor still being sold after 30 years for $250"?
^ what he said
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#15We changed the title from “A mighty editor still being sold after 30 years for $250”, which breaks the HN guidelines for editorializing. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And now the headline provides absolutely no indication of why it's an interesting link. Sigh. Why not just strike "mighty" and leave it as "An editor still being sold after 30 years for $250"?
strongly agree with this. there's a difference between editorialising and having a title that tells you why the link was posted in the first place (and the fact that it's "a programmer's editor" is not it)
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#16Still being sold for $250 != still being bought for $250, as a lot of people who try selling things on eBay find out to their dismay.
Our volume is zero, but we make up for it with large margins.
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#17Its extension language looks very interesting. It looks very powerful while having domain-specific features (I've noticed ‘user’, ‘command’, and ‘save_var’ keywords). See e.g. http://www.lugaru.com/ftp/for-v13/cmake.e http://www.lugaru.com/ftp/for-v13/lispmode.e
Also, the demo is extremely snappy. Shame it doesn't seem to have vi emulation (unless I missed it?) or org-mode, both of which are killer features of emacs for me.
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#18I almost want to buy a copy just to give the guy kudos for keeping with it for all these years. Pretty impressive array of platforms and features for something with that old a history!
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#20Epsilon is great. Let me offer a whole-hearted recommendation. It's a secret weapon, an unfair advantage we have, those of us in the know.
I was so happy to come upon it as a sadly ex-Symbolics-ZMacs user (and ex-MIT-TECO-Emacs user) when first confronted with a 286 system, and I have have been using it ever since. I buy a few copies every few years, typically for team members who wonder what's that magic I keep using. At my present company, I fought (and won) a three-month battle with the Software Standards Committee to be allowed to install it.
As a Windows developer I routinely do all editing in Epsilon, switching to Visual Studio only to compile and debug. To draft this very message, I switched away from my web browser to Epsilon. Steven Doerfler provides great customer service on the very rare occasion that I need to turn to him.
If you have any emacs in your soul, buy Epsilon. Now.