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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: MicroEmacs Date: 24 Jan 1994 19:21:35 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 41 Message-ID: <2i173v$n69@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <9401231826.AA04996@moose.usmcs.maine.edu> <JKH.94Jan24012833@whisker.lotus.ie> <ellis.759392179@nova> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <ellis.759392179@nova>, R. Stewart Ellis <ellis@nova.gmi.edu> wrote: >>I don't want to start a fight, but I gave up on microemacs a long time ago >because it was too much of a hackers toy. There were some fundamental >problems with the design that the main developer did not fix because he was >too busy adding toys, like a macro language that was very fragile. But to >get error-parsing and a lot of other things I had to use the language, which >would crash very easily. My other main irritation was that you could open >help windows on help windows. I'll bet these have been fixed on the version on FreeBSD.cdrom.com. This is version 3.12, what's the last version you used. I've used it steadily for over 4 years now, and version 3.12 is by far more stable than GNU emacs (though it does a lot less). I've NEVER had a crash due to a problem in uemacs with the new version. > It does C and lisp formatting if you wish and >does interactive shells as well as a compile-it function that allows you to >step either way through the errors. If you want GNU Emacs, then get GNU emacs. If you want a small editor with similar keybinding to GNU emacs that's an JUST an editor, then MicroEmacs fits the bill nicely. Matter of fact vim uses alot of uemacs code in it and is very well liked by lots of folks. I've found the uemacs source code easy to modify and understand. Your milage may vary. This isn't editor wars, and comparing any editor w/out checking out the latest revision of the editor is just asking for flames. BTW - Both of the other editors are probably as valid as uemacs for FreeBSD, but the advantage to uemacs is that I am a uemacs beta tester and a FreeBSD core developer, so I will make sure that the most stable version of it is available for FreeBSD. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me