Date   : Wed, 30 Jul 1986 14:15:26 GMT
From   : Thomas Almy <toma%tekgvs.uucp@BRL.ARPA>
Subject: Re: Emacs-like editor wanted

In article <2643@brl-smoke.ARPA> Stephen.Jenks@cmu-cs-maps.ARPA writes:
>I keep seeing all these announcements of MicroEmacs for all sorts of
>operating systems, and am getting pretty jealous of MS-DOS people, since I run
>CP/M.  Has anyone succeeded (or even tried) to convert MicroEmacs to CP/M?
>
>I need a good editor.  I've used The Final Word, but it just isn't as good
>as Emacs, and it limits the size of files to less than the size of its swap
>file.  No good! ... 

Unfortunately, MicroEmacs keeps the file memory resident (allowing about 29k
of buffers with 8086 "small memory model", figure about 20k with CP/M-80).
I use Mince (like Final Word) and devote a ram disk to the swap file.  Works
great.

Tom Almy
Tektronix