trb@stag.UUCP (09/30/87)
The best version of uEmacs for the ST that I have seen so far is the
version that was presented at the local ST developers' meeting last
Friday. If I remember right, this is the version that was first
modified by Moshe, then by Dale Schumacher, and more recently has been
re-worked by both Dale Schumacher and John Stanley. This version uses
Dales' DLIBS (a newer version than I posted about 3 months ago) and is
quite fast, has the ability to 'clone' itself so you don't need any
configuration files, and has a very nice shell interface (which was
also written by Dale and John...some nice features like Ksh has). More
on this when they get ready to post it to the world.
-Todd Burkey
trb@stag.UUCP
For reference to the following message, see my posting in
comp.editors:
P.S. In response to the numerous responses to my comments on the
features of my next 'weekend' project (a programmers' editor), I would
like to thank everyone for the ideas. Yes, even the hate mail from
emacs users was useful (it is strange how everyone gets so worked up
on the modeless or not issue, since that is such a trivial thing when
you are actually editting a file...maybe it is just the poor typers
who hate two mode editors or something-i.e. always having to hit ESC
to move up a line and change something :-) ). In the two weekends I
have played around writing the editor so far, I have gotten all the
screen manipulations (paging, scrolling, skip ahead, information
popups), buffer handling (file readin, toggling between two buffers,
cycling through buffers), and finalized the internal structures (that
was one whole weekend because I decided to go to something which I
think is similiar to the way emacs is structured...yes, I am still
avoiding the temptation to look at the emacs source code.) To the
flamers on the net, all I can say is that 1) right now I am using vi
to edit this file on my Unix box...it is completely usable, but very
slow at times (i.e. I was editting a 800K file the other day and made
the mistake of telling it to do a global delete of something that
caused about 600K of the file to go away...took 6 minutes to finish
and 3 minutes to undo), and 2) I used the real EMACS for several years
and it is neat, but big, clumsy at times, and slow...and I use uEmacs
for all my program editting on my ST (it too is nice, but I don't like
pressing two keys to do one thing and I don't like the way buffers are
handled and the way you can't shift the screen around on the page...)
Sorry for the long PS, but I like getting all the informational
messages from emacs users :-). Any comments from the ST community out
there (since this editor will be running on the ST first?)