jr@ALEXANDER.BBN.COM.UUCP (02/27/87)
There have been many messages lately of the form ``is there a GNU emacs available for x'', where x is some PC or PC operating system. There are several emacs-like editors available for various PC's, notably Dan Lawrence's microemacs and, recently, someone else's (I haven't seen an attirbution) microGNUemacs. These two are both derived from a common origin, and are freeware. There are also a host of slightly older (i.e., predating GNU) wysiwyg editors that resemble emacs to a greater or lesser degree and are available, perhaps at some cost, for IBM PCs and similar beasts. I don't know of full ports of GNU emacs to PC-class machines yet, though it does run on the ATT 7300 and RT/PC. The programs mentioned above generally support the default functionality of GNU emacs, without programmability, but generally with keyboard macros and user-settable key bindings. Could someone generate a summary of these and post it to this list? Failing that, I will accept contributions to same and post the summary myself. I think it would help reduce the news volume a little, and I could repost it from time to time if the volume of requests goes up again. Maybe it could become part of the GNU distribution (etc/GNUCLONES?). /jr unix-emacs-request@bbn.com (Arpanet) bbnccv!unix-emacs-request (Usenet)
kck@wdl1.UUCP (03/03/87)
I am relatively new to this discussion so you'll pardon me if I tell you something you already have. I am using a MacPlus at home and was searching for a reasonable text editor to use in conjunction with the Unix system at the office. I ran across a version of MicroEmacs and loaded it from the A32 Users group files. The documentation indicates that it was done by David G. Conroy at Digital Equipment Corporation Enet REX::Conroy. The documentation seems to have made its way to whereever I got it by way of eirikur%amber.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM When you reach them you might then be able to tell me why a seemingly alright MicroEmacs file, when put to Unix with Kermit -r, did not have any linefeeds or carriage returns in it upon arrival. Talk about a difficult thing to edit!! I'd appreciate any tip you can give me on it.