tro@adiron.UUCP (Tom Olin) (07/07/89)
If they can run an X server on Amiga, why not GNUmacs? Has it been done? If not, would any Amiga users care to recommend a flavor of Emacs for the machine? Please mail your responses to ...!uunet!adiron!tro. Thanks. -- =============================================================================== Tom Olin ...!uunet!adiron!tro PAR Technology Corporation New Hartford, NY 13413 (315) 738-0600
darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson) (07/12/89)
>If they can run an X server on Amiga, why not GNUmacs? Has it been done? If >not, would any Amiga users care to recommend a flavor of Emacs for the >machine? GNU Emacs is BIG! On my Sun, it is 1.9 Meg. Admittedly, this includes all the predefined commands that you probably don't care about. Then add in all the space allocated at run time, including the stack. It also doesn't worry about all that wasted space since it assumes you've got virtual memory. Maybe someone with lots of expanded memory may be working on it, but not likely. Porting X to the Amiga is a hard task, but not nearly as bad as GNU would be. The server itself is not a hog, it is all those applications running on it. Best bet is to go with MG2A, which used to be called MicroGnuEmacs. It is a micro-Emacs, with a Gnu feel to it (default bindings are Gnu-like, incremental search, etc.). Plus it is very Amiga-ized. You can resize the window, change fonts, use menus, use the mouse, turn the window into an Icon to get it out of the way, etc. The several mouse bindings are built in, and you can redefine them if you want (such as M-C-Shift-LeftMouse :-) The next release will have an AREXX interface (which looks very good from what I've seen) so it will be programmable (as well as being able to talk to all your other applications). Also, there is the "other" brand, MicroEmacs. I tried using it a few times, and it seemed pretty powerful. But since Gnu was ingrained, I kept screwing up royally. And the Amiga-ized versions always lag behind the current version. I don't think an AREXX version will be available for a long time, if ever. This is a bit smaller than MG, so if you're tight on memory, it may be the way to go. If you want real punishment, there is MEmacs on the EXTRAS disk... Some commercial editors (Uedit, CEDPro) allow you to redefine keys to look a lot like Emacs. Darin Johnson (leadsv!laic!darin@pyramid.pyramid.com) We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
rich@sendai.sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us (K. Richard Magill) (07/22/89)
In article <613@laic.UUCP> darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson) writes:
GNU Emacs is BIG! On my Sun, it is 1.9 Meg. Admittedly, this includes all
the predefined commands that you probably don't care about.
And debugging information. You should be about to get it down to .5
Meg without much trouble.
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rich.kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen) (08/06/89)
Where can I get MG2A? Is it also public domain? Thanks! -- Kim Nguyen kim@watsup.waterloo.edu Systems Design Engineering -- University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
blarson@basil.usc.edu (bob larson) (08/07/89)
In article <KIM.89Aug5141413@watsup.waterloo.edu> kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen) writes: >Where can I get MG2A? Is it also public domain? Mg 2a, improved kill buffer code, and a few minor bug fixes can be ftped from snow.white.toronto.edu. (I think in ~ftp/pub/mg) Mg 2a is also available from comp.sources.misc archives such as uunet.uu.net. Most of Mg 2a is public domain, but there are are parts that are free but not public domain. (Regex code is coverd by GNU copyleft, vms/primos termcap library is copyright by Fred Fish.) -- Bob Larson Arpa: blarson@basil.usc.edu Uucp: {uunet,cit-vax}!usc!basil!blarson Prime mailing list: info-prime-request%ais1@usc.edu usc!ais1!info-prime-request