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From: rzh@lll-lcc.UUCP (Roger Hanscom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: GNU EMACS on an IBM PC/PC clone?
Message-ID: <2619@lll-lcc.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 89 16:14:11 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, LCC, Livermore Ca
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In <NELSON.89Sep29091622@sun.clarkson.edu> nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
 (Russ Nelson) writes:

>You may be interested in Freemacs:
>
>Freemacs is a programmable editor.  The .EXE file is only 21K because
>it only contains a language interpreter and text editor primitives.  The
>bulk of the programming is done in MINT, which is a string-oriented
>language.  Freemacs is yet another Emacs clone.  Emacs was first written
>at MIT by Richard M. Stallman.
>
>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 mean I think it's programmable).
>o Freemacs is the only IBM-PC editor that tries to be like GNU Emacs.

I believe it has *three* distinguishing characteristics.  The other is that
it has what I consider to be rather severe limitations related to the size
of the file it will edit.  On the other hand, microEMACS will edit almost
anything, but with a sub-set of the EMACS commands.  I'll take the sub-set
any day.  If Freemacs has been re-written to remove this fatal flaw, flame
away!

              roger                   rzh@lll-lcc.llnl.gov