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In article <1991Apr10.164029.8489@odin.corp.sgi.com> portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) writes:

   GNU has a lot more "out of the box" functionality than Epsilon.  But
   I can't think of a single feature that GNU has that could not be
   implemented in Epsilon's EEL extension language.  Epsilon is a full
   fledged Emacs implementation by every standard Stallman set
   forth a long time ago.  Furthermore, the "out of the box" functionality
   provided by Epsilon covers about 90-95% of the things that I do with
   GNU Emacs.

I've used Epsilon quite a lot and admire it, but comparing it to GNU
Emacs is like comparing a bicycle to the space shuttle.  Epsilon does
*not* contain the EEL extension language, i.e. you cannot type EEL
expressions at Epsilon and have it interpret them, like you can in
Emacs Lisp.  EEL is implemented in a separate program that compiles
EEL scripts to byte code which you then load into Epsilon.  This makes
debugging lots of fun.  Also, EEL is very similar to C, which for
writing editor commands, is *not* an advantage.  For example, there is
no string type--you must use char *'s like in C, and you must malloc
and free the strings as there is no garbage collector.  (Am I still
correct?).

I don't mean to knock Epsilon, just to correct some overstatement.
Epsilon actually runs reasonably fast on a *4.77 MHz* Toshiba T1000,
and it is small enough to leave in the ramdisk all the time.  
Brief is way too slow for such machines, besides being a lot bigger.

To the person who asks whether Epsilon's default keybindings are
messed up (i.e. "improved" from Emacs's): yes, they, are, but not too
badly.  JOVE messes them up considerably more.  MG tries to remain
faithful, though they messed up in a few places too, sometimes by 
accident.

By the way, has anyone ported ELLE to MS-DOS?