dbx@olympic.atmos.colostate.edu (Doug Burks) (06/07/91)
Greetings,
Any MicroEmacs fans out there? The choice of a text editor is always
a highly personal and religious issue. I've been a longtime MicroEmacs fan,
having it up on every one of my computers and operating systems for years.
Why not Minix?
For Minix-386, I had little trouble. I took the program as distributed,
compiled it, using the V7 options, with little trouble. The only fix is to
delete the version of 'atoi' in eval.c. It doesn't work right. MicroEmacs
is available from midas.mgmt.purdue.edu [128.210.1.3] in the directory dist.
Vsn 3.10 is the latest release, and 3.11 is available in beta release.
For vanilla Minix, the old 64K/64K limit bites especially hard. However,
I got around it by brutally hacking (in the both the hatchet and programming
sense) vsn 3.8. I removed every single feature that I never used. In
the end, only the basic editting commands are left. No multiple windows,
no word processing commands, no access to the operating system, etc. Just
a fine basic text editor. Like mined, MicroEmacs works completely in memory
with no external disk caching, so the size of the files it can edit are
limited. This version can handle about 34K of text. However, be highly
warned that MicroEmacs effectively doesn't warn you when no more space
exists. It will keep on editting, silently truncating your file! If anyone
wants a copy, I'd be happy to mail it to you. If the response is sufficient,
I'll post it.
Doug Burks _O_
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