[comp.emacs] micrognu or freemacs ?

tipler@SKL-CRC.ARPA (Brad Tipler) (02/01/88)

I'm running GNU on ULTRIX and VMS and like to have a version of Emacs on
PCs (MSDOS and VENIX). I have a version of microemacs but the bindings
are not GNU and I would rather not have to learn another customizing language.

What features does micrognu have and where can I get it?
(in particular, does it have the same lisp as GNU and is the documentation
complete?)

And on the competing front:

What features does freemacs have?

Brad Tipler
tipler@skl-crc.arpa

nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (02/02/88)

In article <8802011528.AA20118@skl-crc.arpa> tipler@SKL-CRC.ARPA (Brad Tipler) writes:
[...]
>What features does freemacs have?

Well, to write with a broad brush, Freemacs has several distinguishing
characteristics:

  o 100% 8088 Assembler.  Fast, unportable.
  o Programmable in a real (though funky) programming language, MINT.
  o 17K of Assembler, 60K of MINT (MINT is not TRAC).
  o 64K limit on file size :-(  This usually decides it for most people.

I am (all too) slowly bringing Freemacs into compliance with GNU Emacs.
It was written to the TECO Emacs manual.  Please feel free to flame
me about non-conforming features.


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dow@wjh12.harvard.edu (Dominik Wujastyk) (02/03/88)

I have been following the recent discussion on the merits of the different
PC implementations of EMACS, and I have tried out some of them, and read
most of the documentation.  Freemacs is certainly smooth and fast in use.

One thing I am looking for in particular, though, I have not found in
Freemacs, microEMACS or JOVE, and that is a TeX mode.  

Is there a PC version of EMACS that does have a TeX mode?
Dominik Wujastyk

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