[comp.emacs] EMACS for IBM PC

mcli@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Maurice Ling) (03/25/89)

Hello everyone,

I would like to know what the best implemented version of EMACS for the 
IBM PC is.  Perhaps a version of GNU emacs or microemacs.  Sorry if this
question has been asked before.  Is there an anonymous ftp sight to
obtain emacs for the IBM PC.  I have tried MSDOS-Emacs.  It's useable 
but very awkward.

Please either mail me directly or post to comp.emacs, since I don't 
follow comp.sys.ibm.pc.

Thanks,

Maurice

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drk@athena.mit.edu (David R Kohr) (03/25/89)

In article <1203@ur-cc.UUCP> mcli@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Maurice Ling) writes:
>I would like to know what the best implemented version of EMACS for the 
>IBM PC is.  Perhaps a version of GNU emacs or microemacs.  Sorry if this
					       ^^^^^^^^^^

Does anyone have any news about when the next version of Daniel Lawrence's
version of MicroEmacs is going to come out?  Will there even be a next
version?  And what about the MicroScribe formatter that he was working
on?

I have version 3.9i of MicroEmacs, and it's a great program.  There are,
of course, lots of "bells-and-whistles" which could be added, so I'm
interested in getting a newer version of MicroEmacs (and I'm sure
I'm not alone in wanting one).

			David R. Kohr, M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory
		email:	KOHR@LL.ARPA (preferred) or
			drk@athena.mit.edu
		phone:	(617)981-0775 (work), (617)527-3908 (home)

pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) (03/26/89)

In article <10098@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> drk@athena.mit.edu (David R Kohr) writes:
=In article <1203@ur-cc.UUCP> mcli@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Maurice Ling) writes:
=>I would like to know what the best implemented version of EMACS for the 
=>IBM PC is.  Perhaps a version of GNU emacs or microemacs.  Sorry if this
=					       ^^^^^^^^^^
=
=Does anyone have any news about when the next version of Daniel Lawrence's
=version of MicroEmacs is going to come out?  Will there even be a next
=version?  And what about the MicroScribe formatter that he was working
=on?
=
=I have version 3.9i of MicroEmacs, and it's a great program.  There are,
=of course, lots of "bells-and-whistles" which could be added, so I'm
=interested in getting a newer version of MicroEmacs (and I'm sure
=I'm not alone in wanting one).
=
=			David R. Kohr, M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory
=		email:	KOHR@LL.ARPA (preferred) or
=			drk@athena.mit.edu
=		phone:	(617)981-0775 (work), (617)527-3908 (home)


3.10 has just been uploaded to the Unix Forum on CompuServe.

Pete
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mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (03/27/89)

>Does anyone have any news about when the next version of Daniel Lawrence's
>version of MicroEmacs is going to come out?  Will there even be a next
>version?  And what about the MicroScribe formatter that he was working
>on?

There is a recent announcement in comp.text that it is out and
available on his BBS. Good luck trying to get logged on! I have
not yet succeeded since this announcement. I tried his supposedly
non-beta 3.10 MS-DOS executable and found cockroaches, termites,
scarab beetles and wood ticks.

mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (03/27/89)

>>Does anyone have any news about when the next version of Daniel Lawrence's
>>version of MicroEmacs is going to come out?  Will there even be a next
>>version?  And what about the MicroScribe formatter that he was working
>>on?

>There is a recent announcement in comp.text that it is out and
>available on his BBS. Good luck trying to get logged on! I have
>not yet succeeded since this announcement. I tried his supposedly
>non-beta 3.10 MS-DOS executable and found cockroaches, termites,
>scarab beetles and wood ticks.

Within an hour after typing this, my auto-dialer finally got through.
It compiled easily and now seems to work just fine. 
The phone number is 317-742-5533. It takes about 1 1/4 hours to
download everthing with Xmodem at 2400 baud.