Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!haven!umbc3!alex
From: alex@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Alex S. Crain)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: MicroGneEmacs vs. MicroEmacs vs. Jove vs.....
Message-ID: <1156@umbc3.UMD.EDU>
Date: 30 Aug 88 15:06:27 GMT
Reply-To: alex@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Alex S. Crain)
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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	I will probably get flamed for trying to incite a riot for this, but...

	I bought a baby att-7300 to go with my 3b1, and while its really neat,
its just toooo slow for GNU Emacs (512k memory, 10meg drive). I would like to
put up one of the micro emacs programs, but I don't know which one. Heres the
situation:

	The machines primary use is LaTeX wordprocessor for a non computer
literate individual. I will be using the machine occationally, mostly as a 
sysop, and to beta test some telecom software Im working on. The machine has
a big brother, which runs Emacs.

	What I would like is a small functional editor with as much emacs
compatability as possible. I can live without some commands, but I would 
like the existing commands to behave as much as possible like real emacs. 
Since the primary use for this will be text processing, modes are not that 
important.

	So here's the question: Which flavor of micro-emacs is best for me?
Does it matter? why?





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