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| Version 13.07: | |||||
| Overall Rating: |   (3.0) |
Features: | (4.0) |
Support: | Not rated (0.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (1.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (4.0) |
Price: | (1.0) |
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Why pay $250 for a product meant for old Macs, when Aquamacs is free? - Version: 13.07, 7/21/2009 05:18PM PST
Edwin-schemer
Really dreadful for the price - Version: 13.07, 7/21/2009 09:35AM PST
MarkChuCarroll
I've been an emacs user for years. I'm not particularly happy with any of the versions of it ported to the Mac, so I figured I'd check out Epsilon.
It's dreadful. The basic editor is fine, but it's an awful port to the Mac. The UI is basically text-based - that is, it's a window where everything in it is just drawn with plain text. Not just character based, like any other emacs or Vi port I've seen, but totally plain. No text styles, no coloring of the status bars, etc. When you split the epsilon window, you get a line of "---"s, indistinguishable from the text in the edit buffers.
If this were free software, I'd give it a bad review. But this isn't free - they want $250. That is
absolutely <b>insane</b>. On the mac, you can Aquamacs, GnuEmacs, GVim, Viper,
Xemacs, or Smultron for free; any of them is dramatically better than this piece of junk.
You could buy <b>five copies</b> of the vastly superior textmate for what this costs.
It's dreadful. The basic editor is fine, but it's an awful port to the Mac. The UI is basically text-based - that is, it's a window where everything in it is just drawn with plain text. Not just character based, like any other emacs or Vi port I've seen, but totally plain. No text styles, no coloring of the status bars, etc. When you split the epsilon window, you get a line of "---"s, indistinguishable from the text in the edit buffers.
If this were free software, I'd give it a bad review. But this isn't free - they want $250. That is
absolutely <b>insane</b>. On the mac, you can Aquamacs, GnuEmacs, GVim, Viper,
Xemacs, or Smultron for free; any of them is dramatically better than this piece of junk.
You could buy <b>five copies</b> of the vastly superior textmate for what this costs.
Epsilon made sense in the days of MS DOS but now ? - Version: 13.00, 5/30/2006 11:18AM PST
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Edwin-schemer
Why spend $ 250 for an Emacs-clone if you have a choice of free
and complete emacsen running under OS X?
You can use the built-in emacs, compile xemacs or jed
from source-code (running under X11)
or use the Aquamacs in a native format.
and complete emacsen running under OS X?
You can use the built-in emacs, compile xemacs or jed
from source-code (running under X11)
or use the Aquamacs in a native format.
Epsilon played its role in the old days, when RMS vetoed Emacsen for the Mac ...