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From: randyo@microsoft.UUCP (Randy Orrison)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: More on DOS Emacsen
Summary: Epsilon is what you want; but it's not GNU
Message-ID: <9031@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 89 01:20:57 GMT
Reply-To: randyo@microsoft.UUCP (Randy Orrison)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <2238@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> wrp@biochsn.acc.Virginia.EDU (William R. Pearson) writes:
| In article <364@mlfarm.UUCP> ron@mlfarm.UUCP (Ronald Florence) writes:
| ]I normally work with Gnu Emacs on a Unix system, but need to use a
| ]laptop for work at libraries and archives. ...
| ] ... It would be terrific if
| ]the editor understood modes for text and C and/or could be programmed
| ]in emacs lisp, but "feel" and key-mapping close to Gnu Emacs is more
| ]important...
| 
| 	You want epsilon, from Lugaru Software, $150 at your local
| programmers discount mail order, $195 from them.  It is better than
| GNU, because it's identical, only faster.

Just to stave off some confustion -- Epsilon is functionally VERY
similary to GNU Emacs, but its programming language is based on C,
instead of Lisp.  It is, however, almost fully programmable (all the
user level commands are written in its language, and the source is
supplied, so you can re-define any command), and of course all keys can
be re-bound.  You can pop up a sub-shell with only a couple k consumed
by the editor, for doing makes (or test running your windows app!).

It is overall a wonderful editor, but it's not identical to GNU emacs,
and it's not necessarily faster (compare, say, GNU emacs on a Cray 2 to
Epsilon on an XT).  If you want emacs for DOS, this is what you want.

If you don't want to spend any money, MicroEmacs is my next
recommendation, though its command set isn't as close to GNU emacs.

    -randy
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