Re: Do we really care how many floppies are in the base?

[mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)]

I said:

> package       editor               size       easy?
> -------       ------               ----       -----
> ed            ed                  69636         no
> ee.deb        ee                  79792       very
> elv-vi        vi,ex,view,input   106500         no
> emacs         emacs               large         no
> joe           joe,jmacs,jstar,   172032         ??
>               jpico
> nvi           vi                 357555         no
> pico          pico               122207        yes
> vim           vi                 307200         no
>
> Another option might be to look for an even smaller easy editor.
> I recall a tiny full screen editor named ae which might qualify,
> but would have to look at it again to be sure and check the copyright
> status.  I could probably do that tonight.

I grabbed a copy of ae 4.93 and took a quick look.  The size
is 40159 bytes and the copyright is GPL-ish.  Keymappings are
defined in a startup file of about 2K bytes, expected to be
in the user's home directory.  Absence of the startup file is
fatal, and that'd probably need to be changed if we adopted ae.
The "feel" is similar to ee, but with rougher edges.  The
two startup files supplied are mode.rc (vi-ish) and
modeless.rc (emacs-ish).

Unless the 40K bytes or so size difference is critical, I'd
lean towards ee instead.