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From: mrs@netcom.COM (Morgan Schweers)
Subject: Re: Freemacs or MG2a or Epsilon?
Message-ID: <1991Apr20.102731.13701@netcom.COM>
Organization: McAfee Associates
References: <1991Apr15.202734.5556@midway.uchicago.edu> <1991Apr17.105626.19265@netcom.COM> <Apr.19.00.03.56.1991.24514@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1991 10:27:31 GMT

Some time ago hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) happily mumbled: 
>have about as good support for MS-DOS as Gnu Emacs does for Unix.  It
>swaps files to disk, so it isn't even limited by your memory.  (The
Greetings,
    Yeah.  This is something I *really* want to write for Freemacs.
It's a need, I think.  Of course, the 64K is the major limitation right
now.  This is, however, a feature that I'm going to look into adding.

>prompted me to use Epsilon was primarily the ability to handle files
>>64K.  (Sorry, I know you don't want to hear that, but you asked the
>question, and that's the answer.)  I haven't looked carefully enough
    No problem.  I figure I'll get to ask the question again in a few
months, when Freemacs can handle 64K files, and I'll get to see what
answers I get then.  <Grin>

>
>  - must be able to edit its own executable.  This requires it to
>	handle files >64K, unlimited length "lines", and nulls.
>	There are micro Emacs clones that fail on each of these
>	counts.
    Yepyep.  It can edit it's own executable, but not executables
over 64K.  I just, in fact, spawned out and tested it.  <Grin>

>
> - must have builtin documentation including at least apropos

    Is there really one which doesn't include apropos?

> - must do completion on file names and meta-x command names

    I had thought this was a basic Emacs feature?

> - must be roughly as complete as Gnu Emacs for editing text
>	and C programs.  Doesn't have to be able to read netnews
>	or play tic-tac-toe.

    Natch.  ('Tho I am considering writing a tic-tac-toe program
for Freemacs, and it *DOES* come with a mail reading program.  <Grin>)

>Believe it or not, I really do use Emacs for editing binaries, fairly
>often (on both PC's and Unix).  It's pretty common to get commercial
>or other binary software with hardcoded file names or things that can
>be customized in an editor.  It's also often useful to be able to
>edit things like TAR files and other more or less binary-format stuff.

    I know the feeling.  I used to use EDT on VMS systems to do the
same thing...  <Grin>  Though I admit, I use a disk editor to do that
stuff on the PC, usually.
 
                                                --  Morgan Schweers
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