Hi David,
> Is there any way to obtain or create a stripped-down version of
> Windows GNU Emacs?
> What I'm looking for:
> * Full support for basic EmacsLisp programming
> * All the basic editor commands and defuns (moving, selecting, etc.)
> * Support for windows, buffers, and files
Dear David,
> Unfortunately, I had already looked into Emacs extensions to
> provide project maintenance, and what I found would have taken me
> more time to modify than if I started from scratch and wrote my
> own emacslisp. And I could not find any indexed outline (as in
> NoteTab) ext
I enthusiastically concur with John Xenakis' recommendations. I was a vi
user for years until a colleague I respected said to me one day, "you *have*
to learn emacs". Once I started there was no going back. Emacs Lisp takes
a bit of getting used to but it is worth the effort. I have carried my
To complement what others have said, I am currently running one instance
of Emacs that handles my mail, programming Emacs itself, an org-mode
database, my calendar and various notes in unter 160Mb RAM.
Perceived size may be large because the distributed package looks large,
but much of it is docum