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From: phil@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Wanted: minimal EMACS in C
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Date: 23 Mar 89 23:06:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxg.cso.uiuc.edu!phil    Mar 23 17:06:00 1989


> I'd also be interested. All the EMACS-style editors I've seen are big enough
> to attempt to stand as complete, useful editors on their own two feet. I'd
> like to have a teeny, tiny editor that could reasonably be dropped into larger
> programs as a function for acquiring or modifying small chunks of text. For
> this sort of thing, a featureful, powerful, high-performance system is exactly
> what you don't want. Rather, simplicity, clear, portable coding, and minimal
> size are the concerns. Maybe I'll have to write one.

I may end up writing one.  I had ideas similar to this.  I wanted to plop
it into a terminal program on a micro.  When I invoked it on the mainframe,
the two would share data changes and I get the instant local response of
editing a file on my pc while really applying the changes to the mainframe
and minimizing the line traffic as well.

But first I just wanted to get a toy emacs to play with and experiment
doing source customizing.

--phil