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From: perley@trub (Donald P Perley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: unix and memory, sigh (emacs too big?)
Message-ID: <16990@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Date: 21 Feb 91 15:56:58 GMT
References: <1991Jan26.002917.21545@lavaca.uh.edu> <10870003@hpfcso.HP.COM> <18613@cbmvax.commodore.com> <00078@meph.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: gsarff@meph.UUCP (Gary Sarff)

In article <00078@meph.UUCP>, gsarff@meph (Gary Sarff) writes:
>In article <18613@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>>In article <10870003@hpfcso.HP.COM> aoe@hpfcso.HP.COM (Alexander Elkins) writes:

> I've got a silicon graphics
>machine, and the editor, emacs is bigger than the entire kernel, it's a pig
>and takes forever to start up, and I just want to edit a tiny 1K text file.
>8-(.  I end up using "ed" the line editor a lot. 8-)

This is a little off track, but maybe you should try "mg" (formerly
MicroGnu emacs). It runs 70-140 kbytes (executable file size)
depending on the compile time options and starts in about 1/10 the
time of gnuemacs (on a sun-3/60).  I use it whenever I want a quick startup
and don't need the extra capability of the full blown gnu.

-don perley

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