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From: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Freemacs 1.5e now available.
Summary: Correcting Misinformation
Keywords: uEMACS freemacs
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Date: 14 Jun 89 13:42:12 GMT
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In article <3169@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes:
	[Russ describes his new release....]
>There are a number of Emacs clones for the PC available.  Freemacs
>has two distinguishing characteristics:
>
>o Freemacs is the only freely copyable programmable editor.  Epsilon and Brief
>  are examples of commercial programmable editors.  (MicroEmacs has a macro
>  language, but that doesn't make it programmable).

	Come on Russ, I think a lot of people appreciate your efforts and
your program, but this is just mis-information.  MicroEMACS does indeed
contain a reasonably complete programming language.  I just finished
writting a 2500 line mail reader for our internal mail system.  By any
definition, this could really only be done from within a programming
language.

>I'm a right-to-lifer -- everyone has a right to earn a living sufficient to
>feed himself and his family.

	agreed.  If you use Freemacs, or MicroEMACS, or any shareware
program that you appreciate, please register it.

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