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NOT A BUG. Lightweight EMACS?

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From: Bob Sutterfield
Date: Wed, 03 May 1989 21:00
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a usable From: line, so the gateway did the best it could, which
didn't turn out so great this time.)

   >From badile!forman Wed May  3 15:46:06 MET 1989 remote from ethz

   (Do consider that one must repeatedly hit ESC between "v" strokes
   to page up, but not to C-v down through a file.)

Remember that the separate-key ESC prefix is a crutch to help poor
folks without a real META key.  So-equipped, a terminal or workstation
keyboard renders both these operations (scroll-up and scroll-down)
into single-keystroke operations, the only difference being which
other key you hold down while you press "v".

   BUT the price for all that [power] is that it is kinda heavy...
   is there such thing as a "lightweight EMACS" which can be run on
   smaller machines, e.g. PC's running MINIX or such UNIX-similar
   operating systems?

Yes, there are several flavors of MicroEmacs and the like.  See the
newsgroup comp.emacs for periodic discussions of what kind to get and
where to get it.
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Subject: NOT A BUG. Lightweight EMACS?
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