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From: msp33327@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael S. Pereckas)
Subject: Re: Freemacs or MG2a or Epsilon?
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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1991 21:53:17 GMT
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Somehow I don't think the people on the two sides of this argument are
arguing about the same thing.  I like GNU Emacs.  I really do.  I use
it on the university Sequent I'm posting this from.  But it doesn't
run under mess-dos.  I can't afford to go out and buy a big disk, more
ram, and then spend $500--$1000+ for unix.  I'd like to run unix on my
machine, and when I can afford to do so, I will.  And I'll use GNU
Emacs as my editor.  

Right now I use Qedit.  It is inexpensive, fast, works reasonably
well, and I hacked the keybinding file to sort-of resemble GNU Emacs
so I don't go nuts switching from unix to mess-dos and back.  I've
played with most of the free Emacs-like editors for dos, and I don't
like any of them too much.  But I'm still looking around.  

--

< Michael Pereckas  <>  m-pereckas@uiuc.edu  <>  Just another student... >
   "This desoldering braid doesn't work.  What's this cheap stuff made
    of, anyway?"  "I don't know, looks like solder to me."