[MacPerl] OT emacs & TeX/LaTeX

["Jay Bedsole" <rwdd30@email.sps.mot.com>]

I saw a couple of different messages about these two things
over the last several days...

Alpha may be the answer to both.

Alpha has an emacs emulation mode that is pretty good, though
not 100% faithful, at least as far as the keyboard mapping to
functions goes. Unfortunately if you've got your own elisp
code, it won't port easily into Alpha. Alpha uses TCL as its
programming language. I tried out the gnu emacs for the Mac,
and while it was a quite faithful implementation, it was huge
and quite sluggish. For my needs Alpha fits the bill...

No one mentioned Alpha when they were talking about LaTeX
editors. This could be because it's crap, or it could be an
oversight. I've never had to use it that way, but I know that
LaTeX was the reason Alpha was invented in the first place -
so it might be worth looking into.

jay

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