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From: toma@tekgvs.UUCP (Thomas Almy)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm
Subject: Re: Emacs-like editor wanted
Message-ID: <1654@tekgvs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Jul-86 10:15:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekgvs.1654
Posted: Wed Jul 30 10:15:26 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 1-Aug-86 03:17:47 EDT
References: <2643@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.UUCP (Thomas Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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Summary: Sorry

In article <2643@brl-smoke.ARPA> Stephen.Jenks@cmu-cs-maps.ARPA writes:
>I keep seeing all these announcements of MicroEmacs for all sorts of
>operating systems, and am getting pretty jealous of MS-DOS people, since I run
>CP/M.  Has anyone succeeded (or even tried) to convert MicroEmacs to CP/M?
>
>I need a good editor.  I've used The Final Word, but it just isn't as good
>as Emacs, and it limits the size of files to less than the size of its swap
>file.  No good! ... 

Unfortunately, MicroEmacs keeps the file memory resident (allowing about 29k
of buffers with 8086 "small memory model", figure about 20k with CP/M-80).
I use Mince (like Final Word) and devote a ram disk to the swap file.  Works
great.

Tom Almy
Tektronix