baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer) (08/06/86)
First of all, thanks to everyone for responding to my initial question about Unipress Emacs for the Amiga. Secondly, a few questions and comments. Does the 250k that Emacs will use include buffer memory, or is that extra? Also, will the new Unipress version allow you to compile your programs from the editor? And, can you have emacs sit on top of other windows, meaning if you opened a CLI shell, could you cut and paste in it, or cut and paste between it and the editor? The compiling from emacs is very useful in C and Pascal, and the cut and paste with shells useful when using LISP or scheme. I'm glad to see many of the things I've grown to love in unix are now being ported to the Amiga. Keep it up everybody, we can all collectively laugh at those IBM PC people :-). -Ken. o -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Ken Baer. (The Eternal CS Student) path - tektronix!reed!percival!baer "Unix is a great system but it can't have children."
sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk) (08/09/86)
First of all, thanks to everyone for responding to my initial question
about Unipress Emacs for the Amiga. Secondly, a few questions and
comments. Does the 250k that Emacs will use include buffer memory, or
is that extra? Also, will the new Unipress version allow you to
compile your programs from the editor? And, can you have emacs sit on
top of other windows, meaning if you opened a CLI shell, could you cut
and paste in it, or cut and paste between it and the editor?
I asked some of these same questions of Unipress and this is what
they answered:
One of the nicest things about Unipress Emacs on Unix is its process
control facilities. I like to be able to: run a Unix shell inside an
Emacs window, "filter-region" an Emacs region thru a Unix filter, run
the C compiler asynchronously, etc. Will the planned Unipress Amiga
Emacs have similar facilities (which I guess would utilize AmigaDos)?
Agreed, and yes, we'll definately impliment all those things for
AmigaDos. Perhaps not in the first alpha version, because we're
taking the time to generalize all the O/S interfaces to remove the
assumption that emacs is running on an Unix. Thanks for your
interest.
Steven Litvintchouk
MITRE Corporation
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