randall@Virginia.EDU (Ran Atkinson) (02/15/91)
In article <665@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl>, derek@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl (derek Carr) writes: >But I don't HAVE emacs on my (Sun4/pyramid) UNIX system, and have never >seen it on ANY unix system I've worked on - I've either had to use vi >(not too bad, but not too good either) the user-hostile sun editor, or >Framemaker - which sometime is rather a steam-roller to crack a nut! There is no reason not to have EMACS on ANY UNIX system. Among many others, the source for MicroEMACS is available from any comp.sources.* archive on the net, many PC BBSs, and elsewhere. GNU Emacs was originally developed on a UNIX system and has been ported to every UNIX system I've heard of and some UNIX version I hadn't heard of before perusing the GNU Emacs documentation. It is also widely available on the net and the FSF folks will even put it onto a Mag Tape for you for a very slight fee. If one doesn't want to use EMACS that is fine, but claims that it isn't freely available on UNIX (or MSDOS or AmigaDOS or MacOS) are absurd.