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needlesslygrim 6 months ago

I'm curious, why don't you use GNU Emacs?

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WalterBright 6 months ago | parent [-]

Too heavy. MicroEmacs loads instantly.

MicroEmacs is small and lightweight. I port it to whatever machine I'm using, and it works nicely in a remote tty window. It doesn't need a customization language, as I just change the source code.

Recently, I added color syntax highlighting to it, and support for unicode characters.

https://github.com/DigitalMars/med

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needlesslygrim 6 months ago | parent | next [-]

That makes sense, and it's interesting that both you and Linus Torvalds maintain your own versions of Micro Emacs. Sign of greatness perhaps :)

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00000000000test 6 months ago | parent | prev [-]

For how long have you been coding without syntax highlighting?

	▲	WalterBright 6 months ago \| parent [-]
		Since my hair left for the Klondike gold fields.