pem@cadnetix.COM (Paul Meyer) (02/17/89)
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Speaking of GNU Emacs, has anybody ever looked at the
feasibility of GNU Emacs for the Mac? (NOT microemacs or micrognu,
but the real thing with only the impossible stuff (subprocesses, shell
commands, etc.) taken out but Lisp most definitely left in)
Obviously the whole thing could run under A/UX, but what about
from the finder? Would the thing be a total dog running in only 1 Mb?
Inquiring (and power-greedy) minds want to know...
Paul Meyer pem@cadnetix.COM
Cadnetix Corp.
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Boulder, CO 80301 (303)444-8075x244km@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Ken Mitchum) (02/22/89)
In article <6674@cadnetix.COM> pem@cadnetix.COM (Paul Meyer) writes: >[] > Speaking of GNU Emacs, has anybody ever looked at the >feasibility of GNU Emacs for the Mac? (NOT microemacs or micrognu, >but the real thing with only the impossible stuff (subprocesses, shell >commands, etc.) taken out... The problem with porting GNU Emacs to the Mac under the Mac OS is that RMS is very much opposed to Apple because of its lawsuit against Microsoft ("look and feel"), and won't allow any #ifdef MACs in the code. MacJove is another alternative to "REAL" emacs, but if you don't like MicroEmacs, you probably won't like Jove either. The last posted version was 4.9, but 4.10a (an interim version) is available from our system. 4.10a includes window moving/sizing/zooming and filename/directory name completion, along with display bugfixes. I don't know if 4.10a will be posted to comp.binaries.mac or not (there is not a lot of demand for Jove), but if you are interested in 4.10a, let me know. The GNU Emacs source IS supplied with A/UX, but of course, is not supported by anyone. Ken Mitchum Decision Systems Labs km@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu