Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!clarkson!grape.ecs.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Freemacs or MG2a or Epsilon? Message-ID: Date: 22 Apr 91 20:56:30 GMT References: <1991Apr15.153319.16252@odin.corp.sgi.com> <1991Apr15.202734.5556@midway.uchicago.edu> <1991Apr17.105626.19265@netcom.COM> Sender: usenet@grape.ecs.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) Followup-To: comp.emacs Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu's message of 19 Apr 91 04:08:30 GMT In article hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes: - 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. Weeeellllll, strictly speaking, Freemacs can edit its own executable, which is only 21K. But since it doesn't edit files >64K, that rules it out for you. -- --russ I'm proud to be a humble Quaker. It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear -- Freeman Dyson I joined the League for Programming Freedom, and I hope you'll join too.