mreiss@ncrcam.Cambridge.NCR.COM (mreiss) (08/02/90)
O.K. Now that our mouse stuff works, we are almost ready to make this
software available. But first, is anyone else interested in it? I
don't want to do all the rest of this stuff for nothing. Let me know.
What is it? Well, my son and I took mg2a (formerly Micro GNU Emacs) and
added. We were tired of having to use three different editors for things
so we consolidated.
We added support for Personal Pascal. In the case of Personal Pascal,
this means that the compiler can call this editor with the error line
and column. The editor initializes to that line and column just like
the Personal Pascal editor does. But now we have an emacs style editor
to use for our editing. Also we have included a "save file and exit to
the Pascal compiler" function. We like it for this purpose.
We added support for Mark Williams C. Mark Williams C version of an emacs
editor that we have works well. It just has some difference with mg and mg
seems to be closer to GNU emacs for my taste (your mileage may vary).
Besides, we have the source for mg2a. So for MWC, we added the error
buffer handling. With this, we can take an error file and use it to start
up an editing session of the corresponding c file and use it to move around
inside the c file from one error to another. A very hany feature.
Finally we added mouse support. I know that there are emacs clones around
with mouse support, but I have never found one I can use on the Atari. My
son did this part. Good job, Joe. These mouse functions can be used with
the Personal Pascal editor or the Mark Williams C editor, or as just a plain
old vanilla ascii editor.
So that's it. We have it. Joe is using it now, and I will bring it to work
and start using it in a day or two. Is anyone else interested in it? If
there is enough interest I will figure out how to post it to the binaries
and or sources group. If small interest, I will email it to you. If
no interest then we keep it for ourselves.
Before you decide (if you are still reading my ramblings), you can answer
me one question. The other alternative I see is to use full GNU emacs. I
have a couple of problems with it. First it is big. Therefore it takes a
chunk of hard disk space and it takes a while to load. Second, is it just me
or does everyone get the carriage returns (^M) in their buffers. Is there a
way to edit Atari standard ascii source (the ones with the ^M in the buffer)
without having them get in the way in GNU emacs? I don't want to type them
in special and I don't like seeing them on the screen. What do others do?
Well that's it. Let me know if you are interested or if you have an
answer.
mike
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