To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From: A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs1 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk
Date: 24 Jun 93 15:48:12 GMT
Subject: emacses (was: re: Re: Re: Have pity on a neophyte)

  Someone wrote:-
  > ... You gotta have emacs (Demacs for dos, ... Now you have to get demacs

"Joseph Z. Provo" <crimson AT WPI DOT EDU> replied on Thu 24 Jun 1993 08:57:46 -0400
(Subject: re: Re: Re: Have pity on a neophyte):-
  > While I'm all for people prompting their favorite version/port of a
system, you seem to implie that demacs is the only pc emacs....what of mEmacs,
epsilon, freemacs [what most of my friends use], et al? joe, who uses elvis
but just wants to see a bit of equity in the world...

  I don't use any of these: I use AAEMACS, which I wrote myself in Gnu C. As
it uses Gnu C's paging, it can handle really <<B I G>> files, or a lot of
files at once. Not like Freemacs which can't (or couldn't when I used it)
handle a file over pow(2,16) bytes long! And if I accidentally make a delete
that includes lines off the screen, it asks me first if I intended it. And if
I type 'ctrl-Q ctrl-tab', I get a menu of all 256 PC characters, so I can
insert any of them <in>cluding the char(0).