Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!indri!nic.MR.NET!shamash!tank!phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu From: phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: MS-DOS Message-ID: <2941@tank.uchicago.edu> Date: 27 Apr 89 03:18:28 GMT Sender: news@tank.uchicago.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Lines: 22 In article , nelson@sun3.mie.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes... >... >o Freemacs is the only freely copyable programmable editor. Epsilon and Brief > are examples of commercial programmable editors. (MicroEmacs has a macro > language, but that doesn't make it programmable). Well, actually, it's not the only free one. In my younger days, I wrote an editor called MAX, still distributed thru PC-SIG. The main problem is that it was written completely in assembler. This makes it very fast and small (<20K altogether, including all functions), but also very difficult to change. Comes with source. Highlights are an optional menu system (thru F1-F10), up to 10 buffers, up to 2 windows, x-info like help system, blindingly fast execution speed, and a lot of other goodies I can't even remember. Admittedly, in need of an update (written in CGA days). For example, unlike GNU, it really does not have its own programming language. You've gotta change the source to do anything but macro commands. Please do not send inquiries to me; I have long retreated from doing anything with it. /ivo