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From: jr@ALEXANDER.BBN.COM.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Micro Emacs Summary Needed
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Date: Fri, 27-Feb-87 11:08:57 EST
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There have been many messages lately of the form ``is there a GNU
emacs available for x'', where x is some PC or PC operating system.
There are several emacs-like editors available for various PC's,
notably Dan Lawrence's microemacs and, recently, someone else's (I
haven't seen an attirbution) microGNUemacs.  These two are both
derived from a common origin, and are freeware.  There are also a host
of slightly older (i.e., predating GNU) wysiwyg editors that resemble
emacs to a greater or lesser degree and are available, perhaps at some
cost, for IBM PCs and similar beasts.

I don't know of full ports of GNU emacs to PC-class machines yet,
though it does run on the ATT 7300 and RT/PC.  The programs mentioned
above generally support the default functionality of GNU emacs,
without programmability, but generally with keyboard macros and
user-settable key bindings.

Could someone generate a summary of these and post it to this list?
Failing that, I will accept contributions to same and post the summary
myself.  I think it would help reduce the news volume a little, and I
could repost it from time to time if the volume of requests goes up
again.  Maybe it could become part of the GNU distribution
(etc/GNUCLONES?).

/jr
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