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From: matthews@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Dave Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Does MicroEmacs-style programmability exist in GNU Emacs?(summary)
Keywords: uEMACS MAC
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Date: 21 Jul 88 03:27:54 GMT
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Reply-To: matthews@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Dave Matthews)
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My, the folks in this newsgroup certainly are an outgoing and helpful sort!
I got many responses to my inquiry, all attesting to the power of EMACS
Lisp, and many with illustrative samples of .el code.  I was much
enlightened about how GNU EMACS is programmed and much impressed with the
kinds of things it can do.  Thank you all!

I must say though that I'm still impressed with the utility of MicroEMACS as
well.  It doesn't do as much, but it does what it does quite simply.  It got
a job done for me that I couldn't otherwise have accomplished without
learning Lisp or some lower-level language.  And the chapter on MicroEMACS
programming is all of 11 pages, whereas the GNU EMACS equivalent isn't even
finished yet (despite the best software tools imaginable ;-))).

Again this is not to disparage GNU at all, just to commend Dan Lawrence on
his fine program.

- Dave Matthews
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