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From: boba@wwa.com (Bob Allison)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii
Subject: Talk: Emacs
Date: 9 Sep 1994 22:15:45 -0500
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In article <34qkug$7tm@gagme.wwa.com>, William  <billw@glare.cisco.com> wrote:
>
>Also, some unix admin manuals recomend against installing it, because it is
>BIG and uses a lot of resources, whether active or just sitting on disk.
>Fortunately for those used to emacs, there are various "tiny" versions as
>well.  While these usually don't support the more esoteric abilities of
>"real" EMACS (picture mode, new reading, etc), at least the basic commands
>and philosphies are maintained.

   Hmmm ... I guess that means that if we want to use for 'our' purposes 
(meaning ASCII art), we have to use the full sized version.

>True Emacs is more than an editor, it's also provides a text processing
>language.  Most modern EMACS provide a powerful enough langauge that you
>can write just about anything in it.

   As some people have said, "it's more than an editor, it's an operating 
system." :-)


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