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Subject: Re: Full Screen Editor Rqst (GNU Emacs)
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Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 08:28:00 EST
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From: Skip Montanaro <skip@chenengo.steinmetz>
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Subject: Re: Full Screen Editor Rqst (GNU Emacs)


Not only is the GNU Emacs source huge (the tar file distribution is
about 6 Megabytes), but the amount of peripheral information needed to
run it is big. Various important sizes:

Sun 2 executable	>600K (stripped, optimizer off, 470K of
			       that is C, the rest is Lisp and data)
Peripheral stuff	>3.8M (could probably be cut to about 1.5M)

One person here has ported it to his AT&T Unix PC. I still don't know
how he shoehorned it onto that 10M disk, but he did it. 

The things that make you want to put it on your favorite box are that
1) it is the best Emacs around,
2) it is currently being actively supported and enhanced by some good
   people,
3) it is being ported to lots of different environments (I am aware of
   attempts to move it to IBM/370 Unix, the Cray-2, VAX/VMS, and a wide
   variety of System V and 4bsd boxes, and
4) it's free.

When large enough hard disks become available (20 to 40M) for the ST,
it will probably make sense to port it to the ST.

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