pcolsen@super.ORG (Peter C Olsen) (08/24/90)
Has anyone got a library of ``customization'' code for Zmacs, the Symbolics editor? Perhaps better, has anyone got a filter for facilitating the conversion of Gnu EMACS lisp to run as Common Lisp under Zmacs. I want to install a TeX mode on my Symbolics. I've tried hacking the Gnu TeX mode lisp, but it is (as yet) beyond my capacity. Any pointers to appropriate code (or a short and easy-to-use guide to Zmacs customization in general) would be greatly appreciated. (I find the Symbolics documentation too diffuse to master easily; it seems good for the expert, but difficult for the novice --- me!) Peter Olsen pcolsen@super.super.org
jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski) (08/25/90)
In article <31999@super.ORG> pcolsen@super.ORG (Peter C Olsen) writes: > Has anyone got a library of ``customization'' code for Zmacs, the > Symbolics editor? I want to install a TeX mode on my Symbolics. > I've tried hacking the Gnu TeX mode lisp, but it is (as yet) beyond > my capacity. Depending on how much Symbolics Zmacs and TI Explorer Zmacs have diverged, some of the code in /usr/jwz/public/ on spice.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.254.139) might help you. There's about 5 megs of Explorer code there, about 1/3 of which is portable Common Lisp. Get the file _readme.text. There isn't a TeX mode there, but there is a BibTeX mode; also there is a PostScript mode which I converted from a GNU Emacs PostScript mode, so looking at the kind of changes I had to make might help you port TeX mode. Oh yeah, I'm sure that the PostScript mode is Symbolics compatible. There's also some code for Explorer-like logical pathnames in VaxLisp and CMU-CL, and a portable make-system, which in some ways isn't as powerful as the Symbolics or Explorer make-system (doesn't support multiple versions in the same source tree, for example), but it has a much less crufty syntax. -- Jamie