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by needlesslygrim 363 days ago
I'm curious, why don't you use GNU Emacs?
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Too heavy. MicroEmacs loads instantly.

MicroEmacs is small and lightweight. I port it to whatever machine I'm using, and it works nicely in a remote tty window. It doesn't need a customization language, as I just change the source code.

Recently, I added color syntax highlighting to it, and support for unicode characters.

https://github.com/DigitalMars/med

That makes sense, and it's interesting that both you and Linus Torvalds maintain your own versions of Micro Emacs. Sign of greatness perhaps :)
For how long have you been coding without syntax highlighting?
Since my hair left for the Klondike gold fields.