colin@nbc1.ge.com (Colin Rafferty) (04/12/91)
Hello- I have just found myself using a PS/2 running OS/2. I have no choice about what operating system to use. I have in my entire programming life (about eight years) only really enjoyed using emacs. Anyway, I need to get an editor that I can use productively that will run under OS/2. If someone has managed to port gnu emacs to OS/2, I would really like to hear about that. Otherwise, I would like to know if anyone has any suggestions about editors that are emacs-like that run under OS/2. Money is no object. In fact, I could swear that I saw an article somewhere a few months ago about all the emacs-like editors around. If enough people ask, I will summarize my findings to the net. If not enough, I will send out individual summaries to those who ask. Thank you very much. You have no idea what this means to me. -- Colin Owen Rafferty | I believe in compulsory cannibalism. colin@nbc1.ge.com | If people were forced to eat (I don't speak for NBC. | what they killed, there would Watch Tom Brokaw for that.) | be no more wars. -- Abbie Hoffman
tok@slammer.UUCP (Terry Kane) (04/12/91)
You're in luck. If money is no object, then I suggest you buy Lugaru Epsilon for OS/2. It is my editor of choice for bittyboxes. Its drawbacks are few: it doesn't know mice (but if you're the emacs diehard that you say you are, you don't need no stinking mouse :->) and it doesn't use a lisp extension language - its EEL is C based. Well, _I_ consider the latter a disability, but, me, _I_ don't need no stinking rodent! Command lines forever!!!
keinert@IASTATE.EDU (Keinert Fritz) (04/13/91)
In article <COLIN.91Apr11144529@nbc1.ge.com>, colin@nbc1.ge.com (Colin Rafferty) writes: > ... I would like to know if anyone has any > suggestions about editors that are emacs-like that run under OS/2. > Money is no object. When I was still living in the PC world, I used an editor called Epsilon, by Lugaru Software. It is totally PC based, but it comes in three flavors, for MS/DOS, OS/2 and Unix. It has its own C-like extension language called EEL (Epsilon Extension Language), and comes with many features and an excellent manual. It cost about $ 200 two years ago, and I was extremely happy with it. I don't have an address for Lugaru handy, but they are in Pittsburgh, and their phone number used to be (412) 421-5911. Fritz Keinert keinert@vincent.iastate.edu Dept. of Mathematics keinert@pollux.math.iastate.edu Iowa State University s1fxk@ccvax.iastate.edu Ames, IA 50011 s1.fxk@isumvs.bitnet Tel: (515) 294-5128
hundt@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Hundt) (04/14/91)
>> ... I would like to know if anyone has any >> suggestions about editors that are emacs-like that run under OS/2. >> Money is no object. >When I was still living in the PC world, I used an editor called >Epsilon, by Lugaru Software. It is totally PC based, but it comes I'm running MicroEMACS, which one wonderfully kind soul has ported to OS/2. I got it from one of the FTP sites posted on these os2 newsgroups. My init file makes it use as many of the GNU bindings as possible. MicroEMACS is not nearly as powerful as GNU, but it works well and takes up little room. I run versions under DOS, Unix and now OS/2. -Tom Hundt
hnridder@cs.ruu.nl (Ernst de Ridder) (04/15/91)
In <COLIN.91Apr11144529@nbc1.ge.com> colin@nbc1.ge.com (Colin Rafferty) writes: >If someone has managed to port gnu emacs to OS/2, I would really like I believe some people are busy doing so (I forgot their names), but they're not ready yet. >suggestions about editors that are emacs-like that run under OS/2. >Money is no object. Try Epsilon by Lugaru. A superb editor, available for PC-based DOS, OS/2, UNIX/XENIX. List price is $195. Extension language is C-like instead of LISP-like, otherwise very emacs-compatible. Lugaru's address is: Lugaru Software Ltd. 5843 Forbes Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 TEL (412) 421-5911 FAX (412) 421-6371 >Thank you very much. You have no idea what this means to me. Well, I can guess; your problem sounds very familiar. Ernst -- Qualitas qualitatem inducit. Semper ego qualitatem. popa iret
rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel) (04/15/91)
Several ports of MicroEMACS 3.10 are available for OS/2. I mean, they all are nearly equal but were done by different people. One was posted in comp.binaries.os2. Kai Uwe Rommel /* Kai Uwe Rommel, Munich ----- rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de */ DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams (MS)