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From: alex@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Alex S. Crain)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Various flavors of itty-bitty-emacs
Message-ID: <1165@umbc3.UMD.EDU>
Date: 5 Sep 88 03:30:08 GMT
Reply-To: alex@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Alex S. Crain)
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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	ThanX to all the folks who responded to my posting about the
world of micro emacs in all its colours. The concensus was that
MicroGNUEmacs, aka. mg2a, is the closest to real GNU Emacs, and
MicroEmacs3.x is both more powerful and more buggy. Jove was noted for
its DOS compatability.

	I decided to go with mg2a. It compiled without a blink, and
even linked to the shared libraries on the first go (The machine is an
at&t 3b1).  I picked mg2a because:

	1) The votes were 2:1 in favor of mg2a.
	2) It is the most compatable with emacs.
	3) I didn't want to risk agetting a buggy product, and at least one 
		person said of MicroEmacs; "If you can get it to compile..."
	4) Jove sounded nice, but I hate to use anything that is DOS compatable
		for fear of encouraging the use of DOS. :-):-):-)

	ThanX again.

-- 
					:alex.
					Systems Programmer
nerwin!alex@umbc3.umd.edu		UMBC
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