brian@radio.astro.utoronto.ca (Brian Glendenning) (04/27/89)
I would like to run the editor that looks most like GNU emacs on my PC. I think freemacs would be it, however it can edit files <64k, which is too strong a limitation. As far as I can tell, that leaves us with microemacs and jove. Jove seems to be the more powerful, but I like the fact that microemacs seems to write directly to screen memory. Also, microemacs doesn't do isearch (or at least the default ^s binding is for another type of search, I haven't looked through the docs looking for isearch on an alternate or no binding). However both these editors have some dissimilarities with default GNU bindings etc. (Yes, I realize that none of the lisp etc code or sophisticated modes of emacs will be supported, I just want things to feel the same for routine text/code entry. I forced myself to learn all the default gnu bindings so I'd be able to run it on any terminal -- I tend to not even use cursor keys -- and I'd like to be able to take my finger memory over to my PC). So, I'd really appreciate it if people could send me their "init" files for microemacs or jove that make those editors look as much like gnuemacs as possible. I will provide summaries to interested readers (or post it if there is enough interest). Non-jove or microemacs solutions are fine as well, however free or shareware is necessary. Thank you. -- Brian Glendenning - Radio astronomy, University of Toronto brian@radio.astro.utoronto.ca uunet!utai!radio!brian glendenn@utorphys.bitnet