Newsgroups: comp.emacs Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!att!pacbell.com!tandem!netcom!mrs From: mrs@netcom.COM (Morgan Schweers) Subject: Re: Freemacs or MG2a or Epsilon? Message-ID: <1991Apr20.102731.13701@netcom.COM> Organization: McAfee Associates References: <1991Apr15.202734.5556@midway.uchicago.edu> <1991Apr17.105626.19265@netcom.COM> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1991 10:27:31 GMT Some time ago hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) happily mumbled: >have about as good support for MS-DOS as Gnu Emacs does for Unix. It >swaps files to disk, so it isn't even limited by your memory. (The Greetings, Yeah. This is something I *really* want to write for Freemacs. It's a need, I think. Of course, the 64K is the major limitation right now. This is, however, a feature that I'm going to look into adding. >prompted me to use Epsilon was primarily the ability to handle files >>64K. (Sorry, I know you don't want to hear that, but you asked the >question, and that's the answer.) I haven't looked carefully enough No problem. I figure I'll get to ask the question again in a few months, when Freemacs can handle 64K files, and I'll get to see what answers I get then. > > - must be able to edit its own executable. This requires it to > handle files >64K, unlimited length "lines", and nulls. > There are micro Emacs clones that fail on each of these > counts. Yepyep. It can edit it's own executable, but not executables over 64K. I just, in fact, spawned out and tested it. > > - must have builtin documentation including at least apropos Is there really one which doesn't include apropos? > - must do completion on file names and meta-x command names I had thought this was a basic Emacs feature? > - must be roughly as complete as Gnu Emacs for editing text > and C programs. Doesn't have to be able to read netnews > or play tic-tac-toe. Natch. ('Tho I am considering writing a tic-tac-toe program for Freemacs, and it *DOES* come with a mail reading program. ) >Believe it or not, I really do use Emacs for editing binaries, fairly >often (on both PC's and Unix). It's pretty common to get commercial >or other binary software with hardcoded file names or things that can >be customized in an editor. It's also often useful to be able to >edit things like TAR files and other more or less binary-format stuff. I know the feeling. I used to use EDT on VMS systems to do the same thing... Though I admit, I use a disk editor to do that stuff on the PC, usually. -- Morgan Schweers +----- Companies don't have opinions. Mine doubly so. -- mrs@netcom.com -----+