marria@polya.Stanford.EDU (Michael R. Marria) (06/07/88)
I find that this version of emacs is a vast improvement over what I was using, the uemacs that I snarfed from HZ100 sometime back. It is much faster on the screen and handles the screen and cursor movements in more the way I would have hoped. I never liked the way the old uemacs did half page scrolls forward and backwards on C-N and C-P commands near the top and bottom of a window. It was always difficult to display exactly the section I wanted of a file. Freemacs keeps the cursor a few lines away from the top or bottom and scrolls one line at a time with these commands giving you a view of what is coming or going from the cursor before it is completely gone. There are lots of other neat features that I haven't got far into yet, but overall, I am very happy with the change. Michael
cjeffery@arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery) (06/07/88)
From article <2999@polya.Stanford.EDU>, (Michael R. Marria): > I find that this version of emacs is a vast improvement > over what I was using, the uemacs that I snarfed from HZ100 > sometime back. Freemacs looks pretty awesome to me too. I was pretty thrilled with it and its extension language until I tried ^x2 twice in a row. Two windows maximum, folks. I imagine that freemacs will be THE editor of choice under DOS, after it has evolved a bit more. But for now, I'll still with uEmacs 3.9++ ! -- | Clint Jeffery, University of Arizona Department of Computer Science | cjeffery@arizona.edu -or- {ihnp4 noao allegra cmcl2}!arizona!cjeffery --
pre1@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Grant Prellwitz) (06/07/88)
I just thought that I should post the correct directory in SIMTEL20.ARPA, since the location given in a previous posting was incorrect. The files are located in the directory PD1:<MSDOS.FREEMACS> as of 6/5/88. There are five files, listed in the previous posting. See that posting for definitive names, what follow are from memory: EMACS15A.ARC the EMACS executables ~126KB EMACSPEL.ARC a spelling checker ~ 16KB EMACSEGA.ARC some EGA utilities ~ 5KB EMACS100.ARC not sure about name; Z-100 version EMAC15AS.ARC not sure about name; ASM sources -- =====================Grant Prellwitz========================== !ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!pre1 pre1@sphinx.UChicago.edu 76474,2121 (CIS) G.PRELLWITZ (GEnie) pre1 (BIX) -----> contents sole responsibility of poster. <-----