Stephen.Jenks@cmu-cs-maps.ARPA (07/29/86)
(I sure hope this gets out to the net!) I keep seeing all these announcements of MicroEmacs for all sorts of operating systems, and am getting pretty jealous of MS-DOS people, since I run CP/M. Has anyone succeeded (or even tried) to convert MicroEmacs to CP/M? I need a good editor. I've used The Final Word, but it just isn't as good as Emacs, and it limits the size of files to less than the size of its swap file. No good! So I must use WordStar for editting long programs -- no good either. Are there any good editors out there that let you edit big files? Thanks a lot, Steve Jenks uucp: ...!seismo!maps.cs.cmu.edu!sfj arpa: sfj@maps.cs.cmu.edu bitnet: jenks@cmuccvc or sj0k@cmuccvma p.s. Anyone have a UO-Lisp manual. I bought UO-Lisp a long time ago, and never got a manual (pretty useless, huh?) and now the company doesn't respond to my letters. Every company I buy anything from seems to go out of business! Maybe I should buy an IBM PC and they would go under...
toma@tekgvs.UUCP (Thomas Almy) (07/30/86)
In article <2643@brl-smoke.ARPA> Stephen.Jenks@cmu-cs-maps.ARPA writes: >I keep seeing all these announcements of MicroEmacs for all sorts of >operating systems, and am getting pretty jealous of MS-DOS people, since I run >CP/M. Has anyone succeeded (or even tried) to convert MicroEmacs to CP/M? > >I need a good editor. I've used The Final Word, but it just isn't as good >as Emacs, and it limits the size of files to less than the size of its swap >file. No good! ... Unfortunately, MicroEmacs keeps the file memory resident (allowing about 29k of buffers with 8086 "small memory model", figure about 20k with CP/M-80). I use Mince (like Final Word) and devote a ram disk to the swap file. Works great. Tom Almy Tektronix