pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) (08/07/90)
I have been tempted again, and I have put GNU Emacs on my poor 386, but with only 2 megs of total memory it pages too much (Even if I have cut it down a lot, etc...). It is too large. I am stuck with jove, which is not too bad, but not the thing I want really. I was wondering though. The best Emacs I have seen was Multics Emacs by Greenberg, and it was written entirely in Lisp. Is there any freely available Emacs clone written in Lisp or, preferably, Scheme? I guess that it should be smaller (and probably faster), given a suitable Lisp o Scheme implementqation (Scheme-To-C or Yale T) than GNU Emacs, apart from more elegant. The orirginal Multics Emacs would do nicely, if Bull feels like making it free sw. -- Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi | ARPA: pcg%cs.aber.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk
pierson@encore.com (Dan L. Pierson) (08/09/90)
Regarding What about Emacs in Scheme?; pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) adds: > Is there any freely available Emacs clone written in Lisp or, > preferably, Scheme? I guess that it should be smaller (and probably > faster), given a suitable Lisp o Scheme implementqation (Scheme-To-C > or Yale T) than GNU Emacs, apart from more elegant. Edwin, a rather externally GNU-like Emacs, is part of the CScheme beta 7.0 distribution (zurich.ai.mit.edu?). This may not solve your space problems... -- dan In real life: Dan Pierson, Encore Computer Corporation, Research UUCP: {talcott,linus,necis,decvax}!encore!pierson Internet: pierson@encore.com