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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!nova!ellis From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (R. Stewart Ellis) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: seeking smaller emacs Date: 24 Jan 94 06:16:19 GMT Organization: GMI Engineering&Management Institute, Flint, MI Lines: 46 Message-ID: <ellis.759392179@nova> References: <9401231826.AA04996@moose.usmcs.maine.edu> <JKH.94Jan24012833@whisker.lotus.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: nova.gmi.edu jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >In article <9401231826.AA04996@moose.usmcs.maine.edu> swanton@moose.usmcs.maine.edu (George P. Swanton) writes: > I've been using the emacs19.19 package on my laptop (which only has 8M ram) > Running under X it's ok running gcc OR emacs but for one to run, the other > has to get kicked out. I dont use emacs for one tenth of what it can do, > especially this new one. Could someone suggest an alternate editor with > emacs key bindings without all the bells and whistles that is known to > build under FreeBSD-1.0R? >Get the uemacs (microEmacs) package from freebsd.cdrom.com - it sounds >exactly like what the doctor ordered! > Jordan >-- >(Jordan K Hubbard) jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie >FreeBSD Core Team. I *AM* the barnacle-encrusted bivalve of doom. I don't want to start a fight, but I gave up on microemacs a long time ago because it was too much of a hackers toy. There were some fundamental problems with the design that the main developer did not fix because he was too busy adding toys, like a macro language that was very fragile. But to get error-parsing and a lot of other things I had to use the language, which would crash very easily. My other main irritation was that you could open help windows on help windows. I use and endorse jove, which does not have an extention language, but really does not need one. It does C and lisp formatting if you wish and does interactive shells as well as a compile-it function that allows you to step either way through the errors. The latest version is always on relay.cs.toronto.edu:/pub/moraes. The last I saw was 4.14.10. I use it on SunOS 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.3. I have not tried it on any of the 386 bsds, but I would be very surprised if the bsdposix config did not work. Another small emacs gathering steam on the horizon is jed. It is a little more like GNU emacs in some ways, although it started as edt with emacs features. It can still be pushed in either direction. It has a powerful C-like extention language. I just started trying it again today after a lapse of a couple of years. It can be fetched at amy.tch.harvard.edu. -- R.Stewart(Stew) Ellis, Assoc.Prof., (Off)313-762-9765 ___________________ Humanities & Social Science, GMI Eng.& Mgmt. Inst. / _____ ______ Flint, MI 48504 ellis@nova.gmi.edu / / / / / / Gopher,News and modem maintainer, all around hack /________/ / / / /