Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!kodak!atexnet!cvbnet!jsulliva From: jsulliva@cvbnet.prime.com (mailhost) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Emacs For The IBM PC Message-ID: <646@cvbnetPrime.COM> Date: 10 Jul 90 22:58:30 GMT References: <5077@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: postnews@cvbnetPrime.COM Lines: 72 GNU Emacs is a very powerful editor, but for many reasons I don't think you want to try and compile it for your MS-DOS PC (Unix maybe). It's huge and requires virtual memory are two reasons that spring to mind. I recommend trying Freemacs. It's a very competent (and small) editor that is closer to GNU Emacs than any other I've tried. Try it, you'll like it! Following is a description from the author. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freemacs is a programmable editor. The .EXE file is only 21K because it only contains a language interpreter and text editor primitives. The bulk of the programming is done in MINT, which is a string-oriented language. Freemacs is yet another Emacs clone. Emacs was first written at MIT by Richard M. Stallman. There are a number of Emacs clones for the PC available. Freemacs has three distinguishing characteristics: o Freemacs is free, and it was designed from the start to be programmable. o Freemacs is the only IBM-PC editor that tries to be like GNU Emacs. o Freemacs can only edit files less than 64K in length. You may freely copy this software. I only ask that you send improvements back to me for incorporation into the package for the rest of us. The distribution is available from one or more of the following sources: EMACS16A ARC The executables and MINT code. EMACS100 ARC Zenith Z-100 version. Requires EMACS16. EMACSPEL ARC Spelling checker. EMACSEGA ARC A collection of EGA utilities EMAC16AS ARC The .ASM source. CUHUG BBS: (315)268-6667 - 1200/2400 8N1, 24 hrs. File area 25. No registration required to download Freemacs. Internet: Anonymous FTP to simtel20.army.mil from PD: Internet: Anonymous FTP to grape.ecs.clarkson.edu [128.153.13.196] from /e/freemacs Bitnet && UUCP: Send mail to archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu. You may use archive-server%sun.soe@omnigate if you are on Bitnet, or {smart-host}!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!archive-server if you are using UUCP. The mail message should consist of 'help'. If you do not get a reply within a day, then your return path is broken. You'll need to use the path command to give a mail address that our mailer can grok. Our mailer can send mail to any address with an '@' in it, with the exception of ".UUCP" pseudo-addresses. Or else send $15 (copying fee) to the author. This will assure you of the latest version. Please specify floppy format: 5.25", 1.2 Meg 5.25", 360K 3.50", 720K Russell Nelson 11 Grant St. Potsdam, NY 13676 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Sullivan | Computervision/Prime | jsulliva@cvbnet.prime.com CADDS R&D | Bedford, MA 01730 | sun!cvbnet!jsulliva