Okay, so I did some googling; and I'm not quite sure why someone would prefer this over regular GNU Emacs or XEmacs.
Any emacsen around that could shed some light on why you'd use this instead of a more "modern" emacs?
Any emacsen around that could shed some light on why you'd use this instead of a more "modern" emacs?
NIH.
It would be pretty easy to make GNU emacs behave exactly like mg or microemacs. But then you couldn't tell your friends, "I wrote my own Emacs".
* written 1986 by Daniel Lawrence * modified by Petri Kutvonen
I'm sure someone else knows more about it's history.
The idea was if you ever found yourself needing to do some work on a Windowz box that only had Notepad you could whip that out and get something done.
Minor note: "emacsen" refers to various and sundry implementations of Emacs, not users of emacs.