I prefer emacs to vi for most things; but I prefer vi to an editor
that happens to have Emacs's cursor motion keybindings but basically
isn't Emacs.
Well, I don't. Or rather, I've never learned vi, and it still doesn't
have enough cross-platform portability to tempt me. I'm not really in
the "emacs is superior in all ways" camp, but it's what I want as MY
choice of basic editor, even if it "just" has the keybindings and
"modless" editing philosophy.
There's no way that an editor that actually _is_ Emacs in any
meaningful sense will fit on a floppy.
I wonder what you mean by "any meaningful sense." I seem to recall
being relatively happy with any number of non-complete emacs clones back
in the early days of PCs, some of which included extention languages and
key rebinding, and which fit just fine on 360k floppies (uncompressed,
with the rest of a minimal toolset as well.) Surely I don't need a disk
full of unused extensions to qualify as emacs? (Hmm. I wonder how
small an MIT-compatible TECO implementation and the original TECO emacs
would be?) Floppies are just HUGE these days, especially when you
overstuff them and uncompress to a ram disk...
billw
