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From: gore@nucsrl.UUCP (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Making a partial version of GNU Emacs
Message-ID: <3910010@nucsrl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Jun-87 20:56:04 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  9 20:56:04 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jun-87 05:45:12 EDT
Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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I would like to use emacs (GNU 18.41 is the current version here) as the
editor called from mail and news programs.  I don't wish to wait for emacs to
start up every time, though.

(The following two paragraphs are not gripes, their purpose is simply to
explain why I ask what I ask, and to preempt some replies that I already know.)

I cannot use the mail and news modes because we don't use sendmail and news;
and even if we did, I wouldn't want to use those modes because I don't live in
emacs (not yet, anyway :-).

I am also aware of the server-start/emacsclient setup, but I'm not too crazy
about it either (let's leave it as "personal preference").

So, I'm thinking of making a partial version, which would be smaller at the
expense of all modes and libraries that don't deal with writing electronic
messages.  Has anybody tried something like this?  Any caveats I should be
aware of?

What can I leave out of GNU Emacs but still have it work?  Can emacs-lisp-mode
be omitted?  Can the *scratch* buffer be left out?  Do autoloads in loadup.el
take any space?  Are they worth worrying about?

I better stop before I wear out my '?' key (:-).

Jacob Gore
Northwestern University, Computer Science Research Lab
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