melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) (09/15/90)
Could someone give me a comparison of the GNU Emacs like editors for MS DOS? I have heard that JOVE, FREEMACS, and uEmacs are all available. How do they compare to GNU Emacs? -Mike
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (09/15/90)
In article <Ftb*o&12@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
Could someone give me a comparison of the GNU Emacs like editors for MS
DOS? I have heard that JOVE, FREEMACS, and uEmacs are all available.
How do they compare to GNU Emacs?
Freemacs has the functionality and key bindings of GNU Emacs mod two things:
o It can only edit files <64K in length. Most source files are less than
this length, so that is usually not a problem.
o It doesn't have undo. Frankly, I miss this more than large file editing.
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In article <NELSON.90Sep15101352@image.clarkson.edu> nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes: >In article <Ftb*o&12@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > > Could someone give me a comparison of the GNU Emacs like editors for MS > DOS? I have heard that JOVE, FREEMACS, and uEmacs are all available. > How do they compare to GNU Emacs? > >Freemacs has the functionality and key bindings of GNU Emacs mod two things: > > o It can only edit files <64K in length. Most source files are less than > this length, so that is usually not a problem. > o It doesn't have undo. Frankly, I miss this more than large file editing. Get Epsilon for DOS or for 386-based UNIX systems. There's very little that emacs can do that Epsilon can't, and the extension language is C, not lisp, so it's a hell of a lot easier to maintain and upgrade. Unlike most DOS editors, virtually all of Epsilon's functions are provided in the extension language, and the sources are included. Change key bindings all you like, alter the operation of anything you like, including command line parsing. I just wish the sources to their engine were available so I could port it to my non-intel systems. I'd drop emacs like a hot rock. -- _ Kevin D. Quitt demott!kdq kdq@demott.com DeMott Electronics Co. 14707 Keswick St. Van Nuys, CA 91405-1266 VOICE (818) 988-4975 FAX (818) 997-1190 MODEM (818) 997-4496 PEP last 96.37% of all statistics are made up.