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From: steiner@informatik.uni-kl.de (Donald Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Freemacs or MG2a or Epsilon?
Keywords: emacs, laptop
Message-ID: <7704@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de>
Date: 5 Apr 91 16:00:17 GMT
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Hi there,

Being thrust into the MS-DOS world by purchasing a laptop, I have a
few questions regarding GNU Emacs-like programs for MS-DOS.  From
perusing the various newsgroups it seems like there are three dominant
ones: Freemacs & MG, both PD, and Epsilon's commercial product.  Not
having any further info, I wonder if anybody would be able to spare
some time to answer the following questions:

1. Which do you prefer and why?

2. Which is most customizable? I.e., for which would I have most
success getting my own functions and simple programs (ala calendar.el,
diary.el) to work? Alternatively, which has the best set of PD
programs available?

3. Which would run best on a low powered laptop? I'm looking at a
80C86 with either 1 or 3 meg RAM. Emacs is pretty much all I'll be
using. Maybe a bit of calendar, addresses & phones etc., but with luck
that could be part of Emacs.

4. How does one get ahold of the Epsilon product (in the States), and
how much does it cost?. I've located the other 2 on archives here and
there. I realize that Epsilon may run counter to rms' policies, but
I'm prepared to take the moral consequences of actually *buying*
something GNU-like.

Thanks a lot for your help, 


Donald Steiner
DFKI
Kaiserslautern, Germany

steiner@dfki.uni-kl.de