From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oliver Scholz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [Slightly OT] Small GNU Emacs lookalike, UTF-8-able Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:05:47 +0100 Message-ID: <87vf8ug010.fsf@ID-87814.user.uni-berlin.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108426588 25657 80.91.229.2 (15 Feb 2005 00:16:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:16:28 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 15 01:16:28 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0qO0-0001Ok-QE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:16:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0qde-00026g-1H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:32:26 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Attribution: os X-Face: "HgH2sgK|bfH$; PiOJI6|qUCf.ve<51_Od(%ynHr?=>znn#~#oS>",F%B8&\vus),2AsPYb -n>PgddtGEn}s7kH?7kH{P_~vu?]OvVN^qD(L)>G^gDCl(U9n{:d>'DkilN!_K"eNzjrtI4Ya6; Td% IZGMbJ{lawG+'J>QXPZD&TwWU@^~A}f^zAb[Ru;CT(UA]c& User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SlHYGdACR6M3ma2UEwONzNMEAvk= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.58.31.235 Original-X-Trace: 15 Feb 2005 01:06:35 +0100, 84.58.31.235 Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!84.58.31.235 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:128558 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24090 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24090 Leonardo Boiko 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 -- 27 Pluviôse an 213 de la Révolution Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité!