Xref: utzoo comp.misc:5629 comp.editors:583 Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!rutgers!att!chinet!les From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.editors Subject: Re: UNIX needs a real text editor Message-ID: <8019@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 24 Mar 89 21:59:44 GMT References: <222@imspw6.UUCP> <252@torch.UUCP> <2112@mister-curious.sw.mcc.com> <743@stag.UUCP> <25@hcr.UUCP> Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) Followup-To: comp.misc Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix Lines: 15 In article <25@hcr.UUCP> john@hcrvax.UUCP (John R. MacMillan) writes: >Unfortunately, while GNU does do everything I want, it does 10 times >as much that I don't want. As such, it's bigger and slower than my >"ideal" editor. Has anyone written a Truely Tiny Emacs? I'd like to see something suitable for quick replies to mail and such. One window, one buffer, all text in memory would be fine. However, it should have two moderately complicated features: (1) the ability to parse GNU keymaps for the subset of functions it handles and (2) the ability to exec its big brother on the rare occasions that you need it, preferably with cursor positioning intact. Les Mikesell