David_Anthony_Guevara@cup.portal.com (09/28/89)
I am posting this request for a friend, please respond via email to him at ballin@fsd.arc.nasa.gov. If you cannot get to his address, send your responses to me and I will forward them to Mark. Thanks for your help! ================================= Has anyone ported GNU EMACS over to the IBM PC? We have tried to use MicroEMACS, but the command set is somewhat different than GNU EMACS. I could redefine the key bindings to resemble GNU, but I thought I would check to see if GNU was available. I have an IBM PC AT clone with 1 MB of memory and an EGA card/monitor. Thanks for any help you may be able to give me! Mark Ballin Internet: ballin@fsd.arc.nasa.gov
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (09/29/89)
You may be interested in Freemacs: Freemacs is a programmable editor. The .EXE file is only 21K because it only contains a language interpreter and text editor primitives. The bulk of the programming is done in MINT, which is a string-oriented language. Freemacs is yet another Emacs clone. Emacs was first written at MIT by Richard M. Stallman. There are a number of Emacs clones for the PC available. Freemacs has two distinguishing characteristics: o Freemacs is the only freely copyable programmable editor. Epsilon and Brief are examples of commercial programmable editors. (MicroEmacs has a macro language, but that doesn't mean I think it's programmable). o Freemacs is the only IBM-PC editor that tries to be like GNU Emacs. You may freely copy this software. I only ask that you send improvements back to me for incorporation into the package for the rest of us. The distribution is available from one or more of the following sources: EMACS15E ARC The executables and MINT code. EMACS100 ARC Zenith Z-100 version. Requires EMACS15E. EMACSPEL ARC Spelling checker. EMACSEGA ARC A collection of EGA utilities EMAC15ES ARC The .ASM source. CUHUG BBS: (315)268-6667 - 1200/2400 8N1, 24 hrs. File area 25. No registration required to download Freemacs. Internet: Anonymous FTP to simtel20.army.mil from PD:<MSDOS.FREEMACS> Internet: Anonymous FTP to grape.ecs.clarkson.edu [128.153.13.196] from /e/freemacs Bitnet && UUCP: Send mail to archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu. You may use archive-server%sun.soe.clarkson.edu@omnigate if you are on Bitnet, or uunet!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!archive-server if you are using UUCP. The mail message should consist of 'help' if you want to learn how to use the archive server, or else if you just want to get Freemacs, then send the following lines as a separate mail message. If you have an unusual return address (i.e. not Bitnet, nor Internet, nor known to uunet), use the 'path' command to give a path relative to one of the above nets. send freemacs emacs15e.aa send freemacs emacs15e.ab send freemacs emacs15e.ac send freemacs emacs15e.ad send freemacs emacs15e.ae send freemacs emacs15e.af The files that you will get back should be concatenated together, run through uudecode, and thence through an unARCer such as arc or pkxarc. Or else send $15 (copying fee) to the author. This will assure you of the latest version. Please specify floppy format: 5.25", 1.2 Meg 5.25", 360K 3.50", 720K Russell Nelson 11 Grant St. Potsdam, NY 13676 -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Live up to the light thou hast, and more will be granted thee.
bill@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Bill Frolik) (09/30/89)
> Has anyone ported GNU EMACS over to the IBM PC? We have tried to use
Has anyone has tried porting this beast to OS/2 yet? And, if so,
will it run in a PM window?
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hp-pcd!bill Corvallis, Oregonrzh@lll-lcc.UUCP (Roger Hanscom) (10/06/89)
In <NELSON.89Sep29091622@sun.clarkson.edu> nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes: >You may be interested in Freemacs: > >Freemacs is a programmable editor. The .EXE file is only 21K because >it only contains a language interpreter and text editor primitives. The >bulk of the programming is done in MINT, which is a string-oriented >language. Freemacs is yet another Emacs clone. Emacs was first written >at MIT by Richard M. Stallman. > >There are a number of Emacs clones for the PC available. Freemacs >has two distinguishing characteristics: > >o Freemacs is the only freely copyable programmable editor. Epsilon and Brief > are examples of commercial programmable editors. (MicroEmacs has a macro > language, but that doesn't mean I think it's programmable). >o Freemacs is the only IBM-PC editor that tries to be like GNU Emacs. I believe it has *three* distinguishing characteristics. The other is that it has what I consider to be rather severe limitations related to the size of the file it will edit. On the other hand, microEMACS will edit almost anything, but with a sub-set of the EMACS commands. I'll take the sub-set any day. If Freemacs has been re-written to remove this fatal flaw, flame away! roger rzh@lll-lcc.llnl.gov
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (10/07/89)
In article <2619@lll-lcc.UUCP> rzh@lll-lcc.UUCP (Roger Hanscom) writes:
I believe [Freemacs] has *three* distinguishing characteristics.
The other is that it has what I consider to be rather severe
limitations related to the size of the file it will edit. On the
other hand, microEMACS will edit almost anything, but with a
sub-set of the EMACS commands. I'll take the sub-set any day. If
Freemacs has been re-written to remove this fatal flaw, flame away!
Nope. I put some time into it, and decided that it wasn't worth my time.
If you really need to edit files larger than 64K, use microemacs. If you
want a GNU Emacs compatible command set, use Freemacs. Sorry you can't
have both...
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--russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu])
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