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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: vi and emacs
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Date: 1 Jun 91 17:38:24 GMT
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In article <1991Jun1.113702.410@cbfsb.att.com> Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM writes:

   kam> So, I'm back to my old setup with emacs and vi.

   kam> Maybe what I need is vimacs ....

   Try emacs' vi emulation.  Do ESC x vip
   and also get into emacs' info reader (C-h i) and read
   "* VIP:     (vip).          A VI-emulation for Emacs."


That wasn't his complaint.  I think it was something to the effect
that Emacs was big and slow.  Launching Emacs for little jobs isn't
quite fast enough unless you have a fast machine.

Is there a another program available besides Emacs client that will
create an Emacs subprocess in the current window?  In other words, I
want to start Emacs then type ec and have an Emacs buffer running in
my current window.

-Mike