Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!spock!kim
From: kim@spock (Kim Letkeman)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Freemacs (was Re: need dos emacs)
Message-ID: <1429@kim>
Date: 20 Nov 89 14:14:37 GMT
References: <364@mlfarm.UUCP> <7140003@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM>
Reply-To: kim@kim (Kim Letkeman)
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
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In article <7140003@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM> lisar@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (Lisa Rogers) writes:
>In comp.emacs, wrp@biochsn.acc.Virginia.EDU (William R. Pearson) writes:
>> 	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.
>
>What do you mean by "identical"?  Do you mean it has the same keybindings?
>Does it have the same functionality?  Can you program it in emacs-lisp, or
>for that matter, can you program it at all?  
>
>I believe their are public domain dos mico-emacs around, but you can't 
>program them, that I know of.  If you find one that you can program,
>I would like to know about it.  So if this one is not programmable, I
>would not buy it without trying it or getting more information about it.
>Sorry to be skeptical...
>
>Lisa 

It is one thing to be skeptical, but quite another to waste people's
time posting an article that renders such an uninformed opinion.
Reading this news group for but one day (or at most a couple of days)
makes it abundantly clear that there are large number of emacses that
are programmable.

Micro-emacs uses a C like macro language and freemacs uses a language
called lint, to name just two.

They may not be gnu, but they are certainly more than just editors.

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