I used emacs until I discovered jed (which is also part of the LM
distribution). Jed has most of emacs' power but none of the footprint. It's
fast enough to use an an email editor, has umpteen dozen modes that support
indenting, syntax highlighting, etc., and is actively developed and supported
by its author, John Davis.
M.
On Sunday 21 January 2001 11:26, you wrote:
> Ummm, do you realize that the install of 7.2 you made probably has both
> emacs and xemacs? These run like Micro-EMACS (same commands plus some
> features) without a new compile.
>
> The one link I found for a port of Micro-EMACS to linux _says_ it is GPL,
> but the original text from the author suggests it is shareware.
>
> It compiles easily, it runs nicely (in a terminal), and it supports a nice
> subset of emacs commands. The port does use French messages. It runs from
> whatever directory you put the binary into after compiling. It appears to
> demand that any files edited BE in that directory, because it doesn't
> appear to support directory paths.
>
> ftp.ac-grenoble.fr/ge/Office/microemacs-5.03.tgz
>
> is the link I used. I don't think I will use MicroEMACS unless I have a
> very limited machine. I would dearly miss the color-coding of c, bash,
> perl, and python source.
>
> Civileme
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Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design
