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From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Standard Emacs
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Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 16:44:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  4 16:44:24 1987
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One of the advantages of Emacs editors is that they behave the same. ^F
advances a character, ^N moves to the next line, and so on. This makes it
easy to use different Emacs editors on different systems. Of course there
is also a disadvantage: they all behave different. When you compare GNU
Emacs, Unipress (Gosling) Emacs, Jove, MicroEmacs, Scame and others,
you'll find nasty differences in the names of functions and variables, and
in the default binding of keystrokes. Some of them allow you to redefine
functions, and most of them allow you to change key bindings.
Because I consider GNU Emacs to be the most original Emacs (all Emacs
documentation mention Richard Stallman to be the "inventor") all the others
spend a considerable amount of time to process custom start-up files which
make them look (more or less) like GNU Emacs.

How about making them all "standard" ? ANSI-Emacs ?