[comp.emacs] PC version of EMACS

jzavgren@bbn.com (John Zavgren) (01/05/89)

Does anyone know of an ftpable source for a good PC-based version of
EMACS?


Thanks in advance
John Zavgren jzavgren@bbn.com

jefu@pawl20.pawl.rpi.edu (Jeffrey Putnam) (01/11/89)

In article <34151@bbn.COM> jzavgren@bbn.com (John Zavgren) writes:

>Does anyone know of an ftpable source for a good PC-based version of
>EMACS?

I will put in a plug here for Freemacs available from grape.ecs.clarkson.edu
(128.153.13.196).  I have tried both Jove and MicroEmacs and found Freemacs
nicer.  It is fast, deals well with a mouse and generally gives me the
kind of warm fuzzy feeling i like to get from a well built program.  

It also has a built in programming language, indeed it seems to be built on
a kernel and everything above the kernel is in that language.  I modified
the c-mode to do more what i wanted than the original did, and though the
language took a bit to figure out, it did not take very long to manage
the modifications.  The biggest problem is that the language is terse to
the point of illegibility - but that is probably how the speed is managed.
(Now if only i could figure out why deleting a file in Dired doesnt work).

I like this emacs and heartily recommend it.



jeff putnam        -- "Sometimes one must attempt the impossible if only to
jefu@pawl.rpi.edu  --  show it is merely inadvisable."