lapalme@croche.iro.umontreal.ca (Guy Lapalme) (08/22/88)
Is Gnu-emacs available on a Macintosh. I am most interested in the possibility of using Emacs-Lisp functions and it would be interesting to have the "usual" Mac interface. Thanks -- Guy Lapalme Dept Informatique et Recherche Operationnelle Universite de Montreal CP 6128, Succ A Montreal Quebec Canada H3C 3J7
bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (08/23/88)
In article <637@mannix.iros1.UUCP> lapalme@croche.iro.umontreal.ca (Guy Lapalme) writes: >Is Gnu-emacs available on a Macintosh? Apple is shipping it with A/UX. Oh, you probably meant on a Macintosh that *looks* like a Macintosh, didn't you? :-) If you want to run Emacs under the Finder, you'll have to look into some of the smaller Emacses. I hear MicroEmacs has some Toolbox support, no? -=- --Bob . I feel.. JUGULAR..
suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com (Steve Uitti) (08/24/88)
In article <637@mannix.iros1.UUCP> lapalme@iros1.UUCP () writes: >Is Gnu-emacs available on a Macintosh. I have no idea. I do have a recent version of Jove running on my Mac (and PC, and soon, this machine). > I am most interested in the possibility of using Emacs-Lisp functions > and it would be interesting to have the "usual" Mac interface. Jove doesn't do Lisp as an extension language, but with Lightspeed C 3.0 on my Mac II (2 Mb RAM), it took only 4 1/2 minutes to compile and build an application from scratch. (OK, so it took an hour for my PC XT clone at 7.16 MHz & MicroSoft C 5.0 to compile it... Turbo C 1.4 should only take 20 minutes.). At the end of the day's edit/compile cycle, I generally remove the objects. I don't see the need for an extension language anymore. I've always known that I can't stand an editor that starts slowly (read GNU). The Jove Mac extensions have rough edges, but work. The mouse can be used to change "dot", but not to select text. There are menus (even a help fuction in the "about" box), that let you do a number of things conveniently (set how tabs are interpreted, set C mode...), and you can open files (visit-file) via a Mac dialogue box. The cmds.doc help file only needs to be in the same folder as the application (the path is not compiled in). Apparently, with ADB keyboards, the control key and escape keys do those things. For older macs, the usual convensions to work around the brain dead keyboard are used. This is determined at run time. Maybe I'm biased (no!), having used Jove for so long. Jove with a Mac II and standard (adb) keyboard is a very good EMACS. Stephen Uitti.