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From: vail@tegra.UUCP (Johnathan Vail)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: A small, fast editor required...
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Date: 18 May 89 15:29:11 GMT
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In-reply-to: pottera@cs.glasgow.ac.uk's message of 12 May 89 08:45:11 GMT

In article <2940@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> pottera@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Alan T Potter) writes:

	   It's said that computery people should never discuss politics, religion
   or text handling tools.  Oh well, at risk of starting a war...  :-)

OK, here goes...

	   Can anyone recommend a small, fast MS-DOS text editor?  Something
   like the editor from Turbo Pascal 3, if only it didn't have the associated
   paraphenalia of the Pascal compiler?

I recommend Freemacs.  It is extremely fast for screen updates and
scrolling.  Searching is fast.  Normal editing is fast.  Loading is
so-so.  Executing kbd macros repeatedly is slow (most of freemacs is
interpreted, kbd macros double so).

Freemacs is fully customizable, is similar to GNU emacs and is FREE.
I don't know how you would get over there though, other than sending
Russ $15 (+?) to send you disks.  I am not sure it it has been posted
here (or will be) but is available for FTP here if that is of any use.

	   Since this has potential to take up a lot of net bandwidth, if you
   have any replies post them to me & I'll summarise.

My mailer doesn't know how to do .uk and I am too busy to find out
right now so I will waste oodles of bandwidth.

"Honesty without Fear" -- Kelvinator
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