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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Selecting a mini-Emacs for Sun systems
Message-ID: <1989Oct26.034501.12114@rpi.edu>
Date: 26 Oct 89 03:45:01 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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I recently got a request to install mg3a on our Sun 3, SunOS 4.0.3
network; right now it is running, but I haven't yet announced it.
What I would like are some outside recommendations on what would be
"the best" mini-Emacs to run.  I've heard of MicroEmacs, mg, Jove,
Freemacs and one or two others.

Important considerations, from our end:

  o It's got to run on our system. :-)

  o It is not orphaned -- fixes of known bugs are issued in a timely manner.

  o It is small.  Comparison: vi on our system is ~145k; mg3a is ~96k.

  o Its keybindings and extended command (M-x) structure is very GNUish
    (> 95% similar for editing commands).

  o Documentation is clear, complete and concise.

We already run GNU but a lot of users don't need all of that power for
just editing.  Sometimes I don't.  I intend to alias "vi" to whatever
we end up with, personally.

Your comments are appreciated.  Thanks.
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