Re: Using The Net (was: UNIX newbie question)

[droberts@chaos.bsu.edu (Dave J. Roberts)]

Frederic Devernay (devernay@sophia.inria.fr) wrote:
: Why not port emacs or Lucid Emacs instead, and use the emacs w3
: browser (which does image inlining with Lucid Emacs), together with
: thousands of other packages?

	Emacs is huge. We have uEmacs if you want emacs-like editing.
A port of emacs would be impossible with our current compiler.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 local    local     819200 Jul 10  1991 emacs*

	This is a Sun4 emacs binary. Imagine the size without shared libs,
and with ORCA/C code bloat! There are better and easier things to do.

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