kwan@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (06/09/85)
Does anyone in the Net-Land know whether if there are any emacs-like editor commercially available for the Apple Macintosh? If such editor does exist, where can I get it? Any pointers will be appreciated. Thanks. Eric Kwan. ARPA: kwan@cmu-cs-k.arpa
winkler@harvard.ARPA (06/09/85)
I will soon send out Mark Stowe's program that makes Microsoft Word behave like the Unix vi editor. (I'm just waiting for him to write some documentation and stop adding new improvements. He keeps wasting time on this unimportant other pursuit of his, a Ph.D. thesis.) The vi program will be shareware and Mark will be asking for $10. His program could, with some work, be made to emulate many EMACS features too. Do people want that? Would it be worth $10? Which features are most used? For vi, he did every feature I'd ever used so I expect he could do the same for EMACS even if he doesn't get to some of the more esoteric ones. Dan. (winkler@harvard)
tdn@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA (Thomas Newton) (06/15/85)
I would be willing to pay $10 for an EMACS mode for WORD. Preferably, the
keyboard bindings should be similar to the bindings in Unix (Gosling) EMACS.
Definitely such basic features as cursor movement (beginning-of-line, next-
line, forward-character, next-page, previous-page, etc.), repeat counts (^U),
deletion, and insertion of killed text should be implemented. I don't really
expect programmability -- a programmable editor would probably work better as
a stand-alone program, and would be worth more than $10. The ability to rebind
key mappings either on-the-fly or via an initialization file would be nice.
Also, extra key bindings to access WORD's formatting functions (which EMACS,
being just a text editor, doesn't have) would be nice.
The Mac keyboard doesn't have an ESC key, but this problem can be solved by
adopting the MacTerminal standard: "~/`" = ESC, COMMAND-"~/`" = "`", and
SHIFT-COMMAND-"~/`" = "~".
-- Thomas Newton
Thomas.Newton@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA