Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ncoast.org!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: MS-DOS Message-ID: <8904262225.AA07039@NCoast.ORG> Date: 26 Apr 89 22:25:05 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 34 In your message of 26 Apr 89 04:01:55 GMT, you write: +--------------- | In article <8904260056.AA23935@life.ai.mit.edu> cire@CISCO.COM (cire|eric) | writes: | % There is however an editor written to look as much like | % GnuEmacs (for those things that are implemented) as possible. | % This is in addition to being as portable as possible. This | % is called "mg" for micro-gnuemacs. I don't know where it | % is being archived. I have a copy here and in another place | % but they aren't really accessable. Sorry. | | Not to mention Freemacs and Epsilon, both of which use mostly similar | features as GNU and have a certain amount of flexibility. They appeared | to be faster than mg. | | Freemacs (I believe) is public domain and can be ftp'ed from SIMTEL20.ARPA. | Epsilon is a commercial product sold by Lugaru Software. +--------------- Freemacs is copylefted. It was written and is maintained by Russ Nelson ; the most recent version is always available for FTP from clutx.clarkson.edu. The most recent version is 1.4d. Early versions of Freemacs were quite different from Gnu Emacs; however, with version 1.4a, Russ started bringing it in line with Gnu; it's pretty close right now, although I have altered my bindings a bit to make it even closer. Freemacs doesn't use elisp (neither does Epsilon, for that matter). It uses a language called MINT ("MINT is not TRAC", whatever that means; I daresay someone out there *does* know...) which is basically a text-processing language. The syntax bears little resemblance to Lisp. Just in case anyone's interested.... ++Brandon