Date:	Sun, 24 Oct 1999 09:30:55 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Johan Venter <jventer AT writeme DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: What's a good stand-alone editor?
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On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Johan Venter wrote:

> I use it in Linux and when I'm in plain DOS. Otherwise, when I'm in
> Windows, I like to see a bit more of document than 80x25 :-)
> 
> Does Emacs support larger text modes like RHIDE?

From this, I derive at least three conclusions:

  - You didn't read the "MS-DOS" chapter in the Emacs manual, which
    describes how to use every standard and non-standard VGA text mode
    on Earth.  (I always use Emacs in 80x50 mode.)

  - You didn't look at the provided example of the init file
    _emacs.xmpl, that is part of the DJGPP Emacs distribution, which
    shows you a working example of how to set this up.

  - You never heard about NTEmacs, a native Win32 port of Emacs
    compiled with MSVC, which features all the usual GUI niceties in
    addition to being, well, Emacs.  If you cannot live without a
    fancy GUI, and don't mind losing the ability to fix problems, be
    it in Emacs or in the library, because you cannot afford MSVC (I'm
    not willing to compromise with this tradeoff), then you want
    NTEmacs.

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