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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: Anybody familiar w/ Micro-Emacs ?
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Date: 10 Nov 89 02:03:16 GMT
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In article <21161@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> kcw@beach.cis.ufl.edu () writes:
>I was wondering if anybody was familiar with the Micro-Emacs.
>In particular, I'm interested in the Lisp aspects of Emacs,
>and I'm curious if the Micro-Emacs version also supports an
>internal lisp interpreter.  Also:

No it doesn't but of course there is XLisp source available and 
Emacs source available. So what else do you need ? :-) On the
Amiga I've hacked up a version of 3.10 that talks to the REXX langauge
processor so that one can do really wild stuff with the editor like
add tex-buffer commands and do compiles into and out of the emacs text
space but that won't help you I'm afraid.

>1)  does Micro-Emacs support parentheses balancing ?
Yup.

>2)  how many megs does it take up ?  and can
>    it run with 640k mem ?
This was the giveaway. Yes, but be aware that on PC type machines that
it does *not* do any sort of virtual memory management so you can only
edit files up to a size of (TPA - sizeof(emacs.exe)). Depending on your
setup that can be as small as 100K files. 

>3)  is the micro version "just" an editor ?  or does
>    it have the developement environment like its 
>    mainframe cousin ?

The editor has a command language that can do some stuff like pipe a 
buffer through a command. But of course the amount of memory left to
run a command would be real tight when it came to something like a C
program being compiled by microsoft C. 

--Chuck McManis
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