I have a copy of the sources for Dave Conroy’s microemacs, if there’s any interest.
It is certainly the smallest one I know about.
I suppose it was quite late to the emacs party, dating from 1989 or so. The sources include support for Ultrix and various mini and micro systems, plus a few terminal types.
There's some pretty decent discussion of forks of this here...
Perhaps also see...
I see the torvalds "fork"; it looks like it gets a patch every year or so.
By the way, JOVE is still maintained, albeit not super actively.
I used to use to use it on small and partially installed systems for editing config files. This role seems to be taken by nano in the modern day.
I asked him once how to change the key bindings and Dave said “You use the Change Configuration command.” “On Unix it is abbreviated as cc.”
Love it!!!
I liked that about the configuration of wmx (a window manger), although less enthralled at the "change configuration command" being "g++"
When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the
question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"