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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: A better EMACS? (or A short Review of Emacs editors)
Message-ID: <3189@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 91 04:44:16 GMT
References: <14061@encore.Encore.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <14061@encore.Encore.COM> elliot@xenna.encore.com writes:

| Micro Emacs: I used Micro Emacs for two days.  At first I kind of liked
| it until I loaded in a large (>300k bytes) file, split the window, and loaded
| a smaller file to edit.  After a few edits, the message "OUT OF MEMORY"
| was displayed in the minibuffer.  After that, I could not save the file
| or do anything else with it but quit.  When I did, the legth of the file
| was zero and all was lost!  I could not use undelete (from PC Tools)
| to resurrect it.  So much for Micro Emacs. (To be fair, I know people
| who prefer this over FreEmacs, but then it become religious again, doesn't
| it?)

  Having been a user of this for 5+ years, I don't think I've ever seen
this problem. However, there are many bad versions of this program out
there, which have been compiled with the wrong options and/or compiler
(or library) and which have some non-working feature.

  It's pretty popular at work, too, because it starts up a lot faster
than GNU, if you just want to edit a file rather than read news, wash
the cat, etc.

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bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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