Re: [Slightly OT] Small GNU Emacs lookalike, UTF-8-able

[Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de>]

Leonardo Boiko <leoboiko@conectiva.com.br> writes:

> Hi.  I'm happy with GNU Emacs, it does internationalization affairs just
> fine.  However, I want to edit texts in my old laptop, with only 24MiB
> of RAM, and Emacs is unusable.  Even being the only application running,
> and even with all minor modes disabled, it still swaps like crazy.
>
> Thus I'm looking for a small-footprint Emacs clone.  My requirements are:
>
> - Unicode and UTF-8 support, including CJK and Latin characters.
> - As similar to Emacs as possible, with the same main keybindings.
> - Either it's possible to run it in a Unicode terminal emulator
>    (rxvt-unicode), or it's a X app accepting XIM input methods.
> - Doesn't need its own input method system (I can use scim or uim).
> - Doesn't need to have fancy programming modes.

You could have a look at qemacs.

http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemacs/

I have never tried it though, but it seems that it could be what you
want. (Ouch! I really hope that those boxes in the screenshots are
made with UCS characters.)

Is it impossible to use CJK characters on a tty (i.e. without X)?

    Oliver
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