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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU emacs for IBM PC and compatibles.
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Date: 26 Jun 88 10:18:21 GMT
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Reply-To: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
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In article <8806260514.AA01327@unixb.CEL.FMC.COM> babu@AI.CEL.FMC.COM (Babu Srinivasan) writes:
>Is there a version of Gnu Emacs that runs on IBM PC and compatibles?
>...
>Note: I have tried FREEMACS, but it is a limited subset of Gnu Emacs.
>Also, many of the commands don't behave in the same way as Gnu Emacs;
>for example list-buffers (which uses buffer numbers instead of
>buffer names) and file name completion.

Well, Babu, I'm sorry to say this, but since the executable for Gnu
Emacs compiles to about one megabyte on most machines, it's highly
unlikely that you'd be able to run Gnu Emacs under MS-LOSS.

Freemacs *does* do a few things differently than Gnu Emacs, and I
consider those things broken.  Instead of grousing, why don't you help
me fix them so that everyone will benefit?

By the way, Freemacs 1.5 now uses Gnu-Emacs-style buffer names and the
lru algorithm.  Freemacs 1.5 is available from finer free software
distributors.  :-)
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