george@osu-eddie.UUCP (George Jones) (12/10/85)
Hi everyone....if anyone is interested in Emacs for the Amiga
I have a working copy....I ported the MicroEmacs that comes with
the IBM PC version of Mark Williams "Let's C".
At this point it is a straight no-frills port. It is a resonable
small version of emacs, it has multiple windows, one keyboard macro,
and all the "basics". Current drawbacks include: no [queary] replace,
somewhat slow screen refresh, not very customizable without changing
the code....BUT IT BEATS THE HELL OUT OF ED !
I will be posting the sources to CompuServe's Amiga Forum shortly but I
hesitate to send it here as it is 100k+ of source.
If you want a copy of this you can send me a disk, and return postage
and whatever you think the copying is worth.
My address is:
George Jones
8080 Flint Rd.
Worthington, Ohio 43085
cbosgd!osu-eddie!george (uucpnet)
george@ohio-state.csnet (csnet)
70003,2443 (CompuServe)
+1 (614) 457-8600
Cheers...
George
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(614) 457-8600 CompuServe: 70003,2443preece@ccvaxa.UUCP (12/12/85)
At risk of sounding over-fastidious, do you have permission to port and distribute this? Is it public domain? -- scott preece gould/csd - urbana uucp: ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece arpa: preece@gswd-vms
george@osu-eddie.UUCP (George Jones) (12/16/85)
> > At risk of sounding over-fastidious, do you have permission > to port and distribute this? Is it public domain? > > -- > scott preece > gould/csd - urbana > uucp: ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece > arpa: preece@gswd-vms Yes...I forgot to mention in my original artical that the source IS Public Domain. That was my criteria for obtaining it. I wanted a small emacs that I could port and distribute... While I'm on (or near) the subject...I recieved some mail from David Conroy, the original author of the editor. He told me that the version I ported was "ancient" and that he has improved some things. I hope to get a copy of his most recient version and make it available in an Amiga version (if it offers substantial improvement). Cheers, George M. Jones cbosgd!osu-eddie!george (uucpnet) george@ohio-state.csnet (csnet) 70003,2443 (CompuServe) +1 (614) 457-8600 -- ----------- George M. Jones {cbosgd,ihnp4}!osu-eddie!george Work Phone: george@ohio-state.csnet (614) 457-8600 CompuServe: 70003,2443
cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis) (12/17/85)
> > At risk of sounding over-fastidious, do you have permission > to port and distribute this? Is it public domain? > > -- > scott preece > gould/csd - urbana > uucp: ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece > arpa: preece@gswd-vms EMACS (the original) and also GnuEMACS are both public domain. Some peoples implementation of EMACS arent. (Unipress comes to mind) --Chuck McManis -- - - - D I S C L A I M E R - - - {ihnp4,fortune}!dual\ All opinions expressed herein are my {qantel,idi}-> !intelca!cem own and not those of my employer, my {ucbvax,hao}!hplabs/ friends, or my avocado plant. :-}
bet@ecsvax.UUCP (Bennett E. Todd III) (12/18/85)
Thanks for posting those sources! I don't have an Amiga; I use an
IBM-PC/AT compatible (Zenith 200). It took me almost no time at all to
port it back. People are complaining about net.sources.mac because is
only has binaries in it; sources are useful to more than just those who
have the machine you use the code on. I am SO glad to see that the Amiga
can run portable programs! Makes it look like a real computer, somehow.
All the Macintosh programs that are so non-portable that there is no
benefit to posting sources remind me somehow of the kind of code that
goes into rom for imbedded computers in household appliances. Keep up
the good work!
-Bennett
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Bennett Todd -- Duke Computation Center, Durham, NC 27706-7756; (919) 684-3695
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