mcli@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Maurice Ling) (04/01/89)
Hello everyone, After looking around for an EMACS editor for the IBM PC, I have finally, with advice from various net people, found that Freemacs is the one that best suits my tastes, since it does act like gnu emacs in most respects. One (probably trivial) annoyance is the blinking mode line. Is there any way you can make it stop blinking? Thanks, Maurice ************************************************************************ * * * Optics... The wave of the future ** ** ** * * * * * * * * * * BITNET : MCLI_SS@UORDBV, MCLISS@UORVM * * * * * UUCP : ...rochester!uhura!mcli ** ** ** * * Internet: mcli@uhura.cc.rochester.edu *** *** *** * * ***** ***** ***** * ************************************************************************
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (04/01/89)
In article <1303@ur-cc.UUCP> mcli@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Maurice Ling) writes:
One (probably trivial) annoyance is the blinking mode line. Is there
any way you can make it stop blinking?
Yes. Use M-x edit-options, and set mode-back-color to 7. Most probably
your normal DOS colors are 15 (White) and 0 (Black). When Freemacs starts
up, it samples the colors on your screen and makes them available as ##(lv,fo)
and ##(lv,bo) (Foreground Original and Background Original). Freemacs naively
swaps these two colors to inverse the mode line. Setting the background
color to anything greater than 7 causes blinking. The next version (1.5e
if it's trivial, 2.0 if I eliminate the 64K limit on file size) has fixed
this.
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In article <27714@srcsip.UUCP> rogers@orion.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Brynn Rogers) writes: 1|o Extensible user interface via a program language. (With a ready-to-use | emacs style command set.) 2|o Multiple over-lapping windows. 3|o Mouse support. (If you have used Logitech's Point then you know what I | mean by this..) 4|o re-configurable menus. 5|+ Can edit (simultaneously) 10-30 files with a total length much greater | than the available memory. 6|+ Can run a make-utility without leaving editing. Preferrably swaps itself | to disk for the duration of the make. AND if it captured the output.. |o=required |+=would like.. |(__________ahuttune@hupu.hut.fi________ FREEMACS meets 1,2, and maybe 5 Not quite. Freemacs 1.x does indeed do number 1, partially number 2 (only two windows, one above the other), number 3, and number 6. I am working on Freemacs 2.0, which will support 5 and (completely) 2. Apparently, many people are not using Freemacs because it is limited to editing files in memory with a 64K limit per file. I personally don't really care -- I don't find much need to edit files larger than 64K. However, I am also adding a folding ability to Freemacs 2.0, because that's interesting to me. It's also going to be in C so that the 68K PC people can also use it. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu])|(70441.205@compuserve.com)| (Russ.Nelson@f360.n260.z1.fidonet.org)|(BH01@GEnie.com :-)
rohde@abalone.cis.ohio-state.edu (joseph t rohde) (03/08/90)
Perhaps this should have been sent to comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d, oh well.. My question is: Freemecs seems to only tolerate file buffers of 32K. Do I have a bad version, or have I missed osmething in the docs, or is that all there is to it? On an aside, I have ps/2 55sx and was wondering if any of the expanded memory drivers for this type are public domain. The ones that are on my Dos 4.01 disk either claim :cant install it's not a 386 for one .sys file, all the way to, can't install: use the 386 version on another. Thanks for your time/replies. Joe -=- rohde@cis.ohio-state.edu joe@eng.ohio-state.edu
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (03/08/90)
In article <77999@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> rohde@abalone.cis.ohio-state.edu (joseph t rohde) writes:
My question is: Freemecs seems to only tolerate file buffers of 32K.
Do I have a bad version, or have I missed osmething in the docs, or
is that all there is to it?
32K? Freemacs should be able to load a file that's less than 65296 bytes
in length.
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