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From: elliot@encore.com (Elliot Mednick)
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Subject: Re: I'm looking for a *LARGE* text editor.
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Date: 25 Feb 91 21:20:57 GMT
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In article <1991Feb25.041914.10351@digi.lonestar.org>,
kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher) writes:
> In article <61292@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
v067hll6@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
> >I'm looking for a large text editor. 
> >
> >I have text files which are about 200 to 900 blocks large.
> >i'm looking for a way to edit them. 
> 
> If you have a 386 with lots of memory, then a PC version of GNU Emacs should
> do.  Emacs pulls the entire file into memory, so to edit a large file
you need
> a lot of memory.
> 
Be careful not to confuse this with Freemacs.  Freemacs is GNU-like
(and free) but, alas, is limited to 64k-byte files.  If there is a
version of the 'real' GNU Emacs available for the PC, I (and many others)
would like to know about it.

Anyone out there working on an enhanced version of Freemacs?
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