On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, civileme 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 7.2 Complete distribution does not appear to have emacs.  I had to
install xemacs, which is fortunately able to use most of my old
customization file (.emacs), although there are one or two keys which can
no longer be used.

> 
> 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
> 
> 

-- 
Len Lawrence            [EMAIL PROTECTED]





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