Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: GNU EMACS on an IBM PC/PC clone? Message-ID: Date: 6 Oct 89 20:14:27 GMT References: <2619@lll-lcc.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 18 In-reply-to: rzh@lll-lcc.UUCP's message of 6 Oct 89 16:14:11 GMT In article <2619@lll-lcc.UUCP> rzh@lll-lcc.UUCP (Roger Hanscom) writes: I believe [Freemacs] 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! Nope. I put some time into it, and decided that it wasn't worth my time. If you really need to edit files larger than 64K, use microemacs. If you want a GNU Emacs compatible command set, use Freemacs. Sorry you can't have both... -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Live up to the light thou hast, and more will be granted thee. A recession now appears more than 2 years away -- John D. Mathon, 4 Oct 1989.