emacs - gnu, x ...?

[george donnelly]

[Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote (krylon at gmx.net) on 7/31/03 6:44 PM]

> If you want a GUI, try GNU Emacs or XEmacs. I prefer GNU Emacs, but I suggest
> you try both (if you are looking for a GUI).
> If you don't want a GUI, and if you are not looking for Emacs' massive
> extensibility, there are several curses-based "lookalikes" of Emacs, that
> share Emacs' look and feel, but do not feature its lisp interpreter, and thus
> much of its extensibility; on the other hand, they tend be more...
> ressource-friendly than emacs. Among these smaller versions I know of zile
> (zile is lossy emacs) and µemacs (micro emacs), though I have tried neither.

thanks for the feedback. gui is not important, i guess i'm just looking for
the neat features that everyone talks about - and with a minimum of resource
usage as i would like to install it on a webserver as well so clients can
use it over ssh.

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