hellerst@hellerst.almaden.ibm.com (Joe Hellerstein) (01/21/91)
I've seen muEmacs and Jove for the Mac, but I've never seen GNU Emacs, or any stripped down version thereof. I'd really like to get a hold of such a thing, so I can use the same keywords, keymapping files, etc. that I use on my workstation, and also because neither Jove nor muEmacs supports basic things like filename completion. If such a beast exists, I wonder if it would even be worth trying to run on my 2.5 meg Mac Plus. I know emacs is a memory hog in general. Someone mentioned a micro GNU Emacs to me -- anybody know more about this? Thanks in advance. Joe Hellerstein
anders@verity.com (Anders Wallgren) (01/21/91)
In article <5535@idunno.Princeton.EDU>, bskendig@dae (Brian Kendig) writes: >GNU Emacs has not been ported to work under either MacOS or A/UX. GNU >feels that Apple's proprietary claim on look-and-feel is directly >opposed to the GNU manifesto, and therefore GNU refuses to support >Apple computers, and doesn't provide software for them. GNU Emacs has not been ported by Project GNU, but it has been ported to A/UX by several other people. It is available from several ftp sites. anders
rmtodd@servalan.uucp (Richard Todd) (01/21/91)
bskendig@dae.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes: >In article <436@rufus.UUCP> hellerst@ibmarc.uucp (Joe Hellerstein) writes: >>I've seen muEmacs and Jove for the Mac, but I've never seen GNU Emacs, or >>any stripped down version thereof. I'd really like to get a hold of such a >>thing, so I can use the same keywords, keymapping files, etc. that I use on >>my workstation, and also because neither Jove nor muEmacs supports basic >>things like filename completion. >GNU Emacs has not been ported to work under either MacOS or A/UX. GNU I'm glad you told me that; otherwise I might have been deluded into thinking that I was using GNU Emacs under A/UX to write this message :-). Seriously, while the FSF refuses to support GNU Emacs under A/UX, other people have been more than willing to take up the slack. Check out Ron Flax's port avail. for anonymous ftp on afsg.apple.com. >I know nothing about how difficult an A/UX port would be. A port to >have GNU Emacs run directly under the Macintosh Finder is >significantly more difficult, because to my knowledge there is no >curses library (routines to move the cursor around on a text screen) >publically available for the Macintosh. From looking at Ron Flax's changes to A/UX, it doesn't look to be much more difficult than any other Unix port. Fortunately, this doesn't matter, since the port's already been done. A MacOS port is an entirely difficult kettle of fish, and I suspect that you won't see this anytime soon, if only because the sort of people who know enough about GNU Emacs to do this are also the sort who won't touch MacOS with a ten-foot pole :-). -- Richard Todd rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu rmtodd@chinet.chi.il.us rmtodd@servalan.uucp
amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) (01/29/91)
In article <1991Jan21.044736.22968@servalan.uucp>, rmtodd@servalan.uucp (Richard Todd) writes: > A MacOS port is an entirely difficult kettle of > fish, and I suspect that you won't see this anytime soon, if only because the > sort of people who know enough about GNU Emacs to do this are also the sort > who won't touch MacOS with a ten-foot pole :-). Or don't have copious amounts of free time. I'll admit that I've thought about it. It doesn't seem worth the effort until v19 comes out, which will support mouse tracking and multiple windows. The only technical difficulties would be the subprocess handling, which I, at least, could learn to live without :)... -- Amanda Walker Visix Software Inc.