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Okay, so I did some googling; and I'm not quite sure why someone would prefer this over regular GNU Emacs or XEmacs. Any emacsen around that could shed some li
by icey 17y ago
Okay, so I did some googling; and I'm not quite sure why someone would prefer this over regular GNU Emacs or XEmacs.
Any emacsen around that could shed some light on why you'd use this instead of a more "modern" emacs?
- ams6110 17y agoBack in the day there used to be an emacs-like editor that would fit on a floppy (1.4MB) disk. Not sure if it was microEmacs or some other name, though the name microEmacs certainly dates back at least to the early 1990s. The idea was if you ever found yourself needing to do some work on a Windowz box that only had Notepad you could whip that out and get something done.
- jrockway 17y agoAny emacsen around that could shed some light on why you'd use this instead of a more "modern" emacs? NIH. It would be pretty easy to make GNU emacs behave exactly like mg or microemacs. But then you couldn't tell your friends, "I wrote my own Emacs".
- limmeau 17y agoAnother member of the "I wrote my own Emacs" club: Fabrice Bellard, of QEMU, TinyCC, FFMpeg, LZEXE... http://bellard.org/qemacs/ http://bellard.org/qemacs/
- Oxryly 17y agoLinus didn't write it. He's certainly modified it but it was written by others. For example the eval.c header sez: * written 1986 by Daniel Lawrence * modified by Petri Kutvonen I'm sure someone else knows more about it's history.
- garnet7 17y ago> Any emacsen around that could shed some light on Minor note: "emacsen" refers to various and sundry implementations of Emacs, not users of emacs. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Emacsen http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Emacsen
- icey 17y agohah, thanks for the clarification
- asjo 17y agoOut of habit.