[comp.emacs] which PC emacs is most like GNUemacs?

kelley@cs.dal.ca (Dan E. Kelley) (07/18/89)

I use and like GNUemacs on Sun and Vax. I'd like an emacs for my PC
which is most like GNU.  What should I get?

Thanks

Dan Kelley
Oceanography
Dalhousie University
Halifax NS Canada
kelley@cs.dal.ca




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hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) (07/18/89)

All the PC Emacses can be configured to work like Gnu, in terms of
having the same key bindings.  mg has as its goal Gnu compatibility,
so certain "little things", like the exact format of the mode line,
and the exact wording of some messages, tends to be more similar.
It's partly a question of what you like about Gnu.  If you like the
builtin command and filename completion and help, I suggest that you
try Jove.  If you like the fact that it's implemented on top of Lisp,
you lose, but Freemacs gives much the same advantage.  It isn't Lisp,
but the implementation philosophy is similar.  Freemacs is also very
fast.  Its main disadvantage is that you can't edit files bigger than
64K.

jmberkley@watnext.waterloo.edu (J. Michael Berkley) (07/19/89)

On 18 Jul 89 01:18:06 GMT,hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) said:
CH> All the PC Emacses can be configured to work like Gnu, in terms of
CH> having the same key bindings.

The last time I checked, most of the micro sized emacses had one very
serious failing: rebinding the incremental search key.

In most micro sized emacs you can rebind the initial isearch command
to some other key.  The problem comes when you want to continue a
search: almost every one of them has HARD-CODED ^S for repeating the
same search.

My pet peeve.


 Mike Berkley, University of Waterloo
 PAMI Lab
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f0057@uafhp.uucp (James E. Ward) (07/19/89)

In my experience, Freemacs from grapes.clarkson.edu is far and away the most
GNU-like emacs for the PC.  I use both GNU and Freemacs everyday and rarely
notice any differences.  As I remember, the author considers any difference
to be a bug!  (I guess I should take time to report the differences I DO
notice, eh?  :-)

James E. Ward
f0057@uafhp.uucp

nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (07/20/89)

In article <5293@decvax.dec.com> f0057@uafhp.uucp (James E. Ward) writes:

   In my experience, Freemacs from grapes.clarkson.edu is far and away the most
That's grape.ecs.clarkson.edu:/e/freemacs/*
   GNU-like emacs for the PC.  I use both GNU and Freemacs everyday and rarely
   notice any differences.  As I remember, the author considers any difference
   to be a bug!  (I guess I should take time to report the differences I DO
   notice, eh?  :-)
Yes!  I only fix those differences that people complain about.  If YOU don't
complain (or fix it yourself), I won't fix it.  I am always willing to
accept enhancements.
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