lwv27@CAS.BITNET (09/22/90)
I was wondering if there exists a package which would convert so many of these nice emacs packages into a format which would be usable within Unipress EMACS? -- Larry W. Virden Business: UUCP: osu-cis!chemabs!lwv27 INET: lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu Personal: 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg,OH 43068-1614 Proline: lvirden@pro-tcc.cts.com America Online: lvirden CIS: [75046,606]
gumby@Cygnus.COM (David Vinayak Wallace) (09/23/90)
Date: 22 Sep 90 11:06:00 GMT From: lwv27@CAS.BITNET I was wondering if there exists a package which would convert so many of these nice emacs packages into a format which would be usable within Unipress EMACS? Why not just run GNU Emacs and be done with it? Is there some environment which runs Unipress Emacs but not GNU Emacs? Or perhaps some feature of Unipress Emacs which you would miss?
crm@duke.cs.duke.edu (Charlie Martin) (09/24/90)
In article <GUMBY.90Sep22143756@Cygnus.COM> gumby@Cygnus.COM (David Vinayak Wallace) writes: >Why not just run GNU Emacs and be done with it? Is there some >environment which runs Unipress Emacs but not GNU Emacs? Yes, MS-DOS. If such a thing exists (GNU->Unipress conversion) I'd like to hear about it as well. -- Charlie Martin (...!mcnc!duke!crm, crm@summanulla.mc.duke.edu) O: NBSR/One University Place/Suite 250/Durham, NC 27707/919-490-1966 H: 13 Gorham Place/Durham, NC 27705/919-383-2256
gamin@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca (Martin Boyer) (09/25/90)
In article <9009221103.AA28504@lilac.berkeley.edu> lwv27@CAS.BITNET writes: >I was wondering if there exists a package which would convert so many >of these nice emacs packages into a format which would be usable within >Unipress EMACS? I really doubt it. I can be done by hand, if you know what you're doing and are willing to spend some time on it. I used UniPress for over 4 years and I switched to GNU about a yeaar ago. Back then, I ported a few packages written for GNU (LISP modes, mainly) and I quickly realized that UniPress's mlisp was not as flexible as GNU's elisp. The difference actually lies in the 'kernel'; the set of basic functions provided by the editor. While UniPress provides almost as much in that area as GNU, the functions are not as customizable (i.e. don't take as wide a range of parameters). If you want a clear example, the regular expression search algorithm in UniPress is incomplete; it can't deal with nested alternatives (the \| operator). I really needed something better, so I ported the GNU code to UniPress. I took me a month, but I learned a lot... I still believe that UniPress has a better looking user interface though. -- Martin Boyer mboyer@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec mboyer@ireq-robot.uucp Varennes, QC, Canada J3X 1S1 +1 514 652-8136