sandersr@ecn-pc.UUCP (Robert C Sanders) (06/29/86)
In article <1024@spice.cs.cmu.edu> djz@spice.cs.cmu.edu.UUCP writes: >Is anybody working on a port of GNU Emacs to the Amiga? Does anyone know >how hard this would be to do? I am thinking of porting it, but I haven't >used GNU Emacs too much so I don't know how difficult it would be. > There is, and has been, an EMACS port for the Amiga and other computers posted in this news group in the last several months. If you watch net.micro.pc, and net.sources, you will see microemacs-3.7 being posted soon by lawrence@duncan. It is a port of GNU emacs that has been fixed to work with most micro-computer compilers. It was originally ported to the Amiga, and has since been expanded for the other micros. Get it soon. - bob -- ------------ Continuing Engineering Education Telecommunications Purdue University "Time is a mouse that requires constant feeding..." -- me ...!ihnp4!pur-ee!pc-ecn!sandersr
mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (06/30/86)
In article <533@ecn-pc.UUCP> sandersr@ecn-pc.UUCP (Robert C Sanders) writes: >There is, and has been, an EMACS port for the Amiga and other computers > posted in this news group in the last several months. If you watch > net.micro.pc, and net.sources, you will see microemacs-3.7 being posted > soon by lawrence@duncan. It is a port of GNU emacs that has been fixed > to work with most micro-computer compilers. It was originally ported > to the Amiga, and has since been expanded for the other micros. Get it > soon. > - bob Unless Lawrence has radically changed things, 3.7 is NOT a port of GNU emacs. 3.5 and 3.6 where not ports, and had different commands sets. It would not be unreasonable to assume that 3.7 had been changed to have a GNU-like command set. Likewise, the 3.x microemacs are a variant of Dave Conroy's microemacs, which appeared on the net as v30. Both of these pre-date the Amiga, so it's highly unlikely that they were first ported to the Amiga. Of course, 3.7 could have been developed on the Amiga, or Lawrence could have restarted from scratch. There is a variant of v30 (which is faster than 3.6) that looks like GNU and runs on the Amiga. It is currently being tested by the bug-microemacs group, and the target date for release is July 31st. <mike
bob@osu-eddie.UUCP (Bob Sutterfield) (07/03/86)
In article <189@rebel.UUCP>, george@rebel.UUCP (George M. Sipe) writes: > ... (a bunch of quotes of quotes of quotes)... > > ... the GNU Emacs distribution doesn't come with VMS support ... Yes, but I understand that the next major release (v18?) will have VMS stuff included in the standard model from RMS, with `#ifdef's all over the place to make it easy to compile and install. After that the lines will stay merged, we can hope. As to the rest of your portability questions (and the real issue of your comments), I'll leave it up to someone who has worked with it. I'm still waiting for my tape to come back. -- Human: Bob Sutterfield Mail: bob%osuag.uucp@ohio-state.arpa or: bob@ohio-state.arpa or: ...!cbosgd!osu-eddie!osuag!bob or: ...!cbosgd!osu-eddie!bob
dca@edison.UUCP (07/11/86)
In article <932@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, mwm@eris.berkeley.edu writes: > In article <533@ecn-pc.UUCP> sandersr@ecn-pc.UUCP (Robert C Sanders) writes: > >There is, and has been, an EMACS port for the Amiga and other computers > > posted in this news group in the last several months. If you watch > > net.micro.pc, and net.sources, you will see microemacs-3.7 being posted > > soon by lawrence@duncan. It is a port of GNU emacs that has been fixed > > to work with most micro-computer compilers. It was originally ported > > to the Amiga, and has since been expanded for the other micros. Get it > > soon. > > - bob MICROemacs is so called because it is a hard coded emacs that lacks the on-line reprogrammability of emacs. MICROemacs incorporates neither a mock lisp nor a full lisp interpreter (ala. GNU emacs). The source, however, is readily available for those who like to "roll there own" and a little C code can produce the environment you like. The benefits are a fast and relatively small editor. A set of revisions to make microemacs 3.6 look like gnu emacs was posted within the last couple months. I can't testify to their efficacy because I am used to Gosling emacs and I found the GNU rebindings a pain so I didn't install them. David Albrecht
authorplaceholder@duncan.UUCP (07/14/86)
Granted MicroEMACS does not have a Lisp extension language in it, we really still want it to fit on most microes, but it does have a simple expansion languaged based on commands. Check the documentation for MicroEMACS 3.7 Daniel Lawrence ihnp4!pur-ee!pur-phy!duncan!lawrence