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In <1991May29.012942.28869@cbfsb.att.com> Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM writes:

>>>>>> On 28 May 91 20:29:26 GMT, ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) said:

>Timo> In article <May.28.10.41.19.1991.17169@yoko.rutgers.edu> gaynor@yoko.rutgers.edu (Silver) writes:
>>Whatever is all the fuss about?  You want a simple editor, you write a simple
>>mode for GNU Emacs and disable whatever other neat shit gets in the way, at

>Timo> And in order to do that one needs to know how to deal with GNU
>Timo> Emacs.  Do I detect a teeny weeny vicious circle somewhere :-). 

>I think they meant that the person who wanted to present the simple
>editor to the students would write the mode.  So you have just the
>presenter (one person) who needs the emacs knowledge, not the students.

I end up with the problem, however, that gnu emacs is a >1MB image,
and does not do a great deal for the system's performance (well
actually it does - a dozen invocations of emacs slogs the
performance drastically).  Thats why we only make Micro-EMACS
available for student use.

Emacs is fine as long as you a prepared to pay the price for having
a complete operating system written in lisp within your editor!

	Nigel.

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