Re: Emacs-like editors

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| From: Robert A. Book <[email protected]>

| The a fact is, there was a very usable clone of Emacs for MS-DOS that
| fit on a 360K floppy.

My normal text editor is JOVE, an early EMACS clone (earlier than GNU
EMACS, a more well known clone :-). I've been using it since about
1984.  Under Red Hat 8 it compiles to a reasonably small file:  149688
bytes after stripping (using shared libraries).  It ought to: it used
to fit in a PDP-11.  It can run under MSDOS, Windows, MacOS, and UNIX
(not all tested recently).

The latest version (source) is available from
	ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/hugh/jove-dev/jove4.16.0.63.tgz
Very stable.

The version for MSDOS is 134280 bytes.
(inside:
	ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/hugh/jove-dev/4.16.0.41.jovedosx.zip
A few years old.)

It uses /tmp to store its buffers.  This may be a bad idea for the
tomsrtbt environment.

I too don't know the vi keystrokes, but I can use ex quite effectively
- -- I used ed(1) for about a decade before I switched to JOVE.

Hugh Redelmeier
[email protected]  voice: +1 416 482-8253


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