The BEST QL Editor
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2025 1:04 am
Albeit I always liked DME (also programmable), the QL version of
MicroEMACS
is a dream!
Thank you Thierry Godefroy!
It's a very current version (4.x, most Windows versions are 3.x). There are some quirks as with all EMACS but this can be fixed thanks to EMACs builtin programming language (kind of LISP).
BTW: I don't think the Micro in MicroEMACS comes from its limited capabilities (compared to EMACS), but because it was (one of) the first version which also runs on micro computers (EMACS and its predecessors first only run on mini computers, like PDP-11, Vax, ...). MicroEMACS has most of the features of a real EMACS.
And the QL version is GREAT! The GUI Thierry wrote for it (QL Extended Environment GUI) is superb! It has even a Copy/Paste to/from Scrap which on QPC2 is also working with the clipboard of Windows :-))))))
p.s.: One thing which is annoying is, that you cannot close the current visible document (buffer in EMACS spoke). You must first switch to another buffer, before you can KILL (^X-K) the buffer. I think I must write an extension...
p.p.s.: ^-G <CTRL-G> always aborts the current command in the command line. A VERY IMPORTANT SHORTCUT if you don't know what's going on...
MicroEMACS
is a dream!
Thank you Thierry Godefroy!
It's a very current version (4.x, most Windows versions are 3.x). There are some quirks as with all EMACS but this can be fixed thanks to EMACs builtin programming language (kind of LISP).
BTW: I don't think the Micro in MicroEMACS comes from its limited capabilities (compared to EMACS), but because it was (one of) the first version which also runs on micro computers (EMACS and its predecessors first only run on mini computers, like PDP-11, Vax, ...). MicroEMACS has most of the features of a real EMACS.
And the QL version is GREAT! The GUI Thierry wrote for it (QL Extended Environment GUI) is superb! It has even a Copy/Paste to/from Scrap which on QPC2 is also working with the clipboard of Windows :-))))))
p.s.: One thing which is annoying is, that you cannot close the current visible document (buffer in EMACS spoke). You must first switch to another buffer, before you can KILL (^X-K) the buffer. I think I must write an extension...
p.p.s.: ^-G <CTRL-G> always aborts the current command in the command line. A VERY IMPORTANT SHORTCUT if you don't know what's going on...