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From: sandra@utah-cs.UUCP (Sandra J Loosemore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: "microemacs"
Message-ID: <5016@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Sep-87 13:49:44 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 29 13:49:44 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 30-Sep-87 07:20:19 EDT
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Just a reminder that there are several editors for the ST which are all
confusingly called "microemacs".  There is Dave Conroy's original
version, the one that calls itself version 3.8 (or is it 3.9 now?), and
one which used to be called MicroGnuEmacs, and is now called MG.  There
is another one which comes (or used to come) with the ST developer's
kit, which was apparently an early version of Mince, which is sold as
a commercial product.  There are also other Emacs variants, such as
Jove, that do not (as far as I know) run on the ST.

So which is best?  I'm currently the support person for the ST version
of MG, so I'm most familiar with that.  It's based on Dave Conroy's
version, and is generally smaller and less featurized than the 3.8
"microemacs".  The key bindings and function names are more compatible
with GNU.  I've heard reports that some of the earlier versions of 3.X
were very buggy, while MG seems to be very robust.

Incidentally, Richard Stallman, the inventor of the original Emacs, has
said publicly that none of these editors are "real" Emacs, and should
not be called Emacs.  MG was renamed in deference to his request.

-Sandra Loosemore
sandra@cs.utah.edu, sandra@utah-cs.uucp