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From: bwm@ccice2.UUCP (Brad Miller)
Newsgroups: net.emacs,net.followup,net.unix,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Re: Public Domain EMACS available from GNU Project
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Date: Mon, 8-Apr-85 18:47:24 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  8 18:47:24 1985
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In article <2347@mit-hermes.ARPA> dms@mit-hermes.ARPA (David M Siegel) writes:
>I cannot image why people would not want GNU Emacs. It is by far the
>best Emacs I have ever used; far better than one you could buy....
>-Dave

I have at least one complaint. It is HUGE. Sorry, but when my OS won't run it
because it only supports 1 meg processes, I start to wonder.

Also, I found several minor bugs trying to
get it up on a BIGendian machine running 4.2. Now it runs, but a lot of
commands don't work quite right -- example c-v scrolls to the next blank line,
or one line if there isn't one on the next page. Obscure! Unfortunately, at the
moment I don't have a symbolic debugger available, so finding the problem
will have to wait until I port one. I can't really blame the author, since he
only has one machine, but I think the technique used in unexec.c isn't very
portable, since it requires a process can read it's own user block.

Brad Miller
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