#Emacs
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There are a couple of very good versions of Emacs around in thublic
domain. In fact, the one oGPe Workbench disk is based on one of them. They
are MicroEmacs v30 (getting old, but the basis of all the others), MicroEmacs
3.9e (3.10 coming soon), and MG2a (used to be MicroGNU, based on GNU Emacs by
the originator of Emacs [RMS]). Check the Fred Fish disks for copies of them
(see the list in the back of any Amazing Computing). I recommend MG2b.
David Masterson
p.s. Oh yeah, I use MicroEmacs 3.9e and MG1b on various Unix systems as well —
they support Amiga, Atari-ST, Unix, MS/DOS, etc.
Thanks for the suggestions but waiting a couple of weeks for a fish disk to
arrive is not my idea of fun (plus you have to add my own two weeks of
procrastination in there :-). I believe Betty Clay said that she would upload
one of the many versions for me to have something to use.
I still can't believe that we don't have it here… Amazing!
BTW, what does MicroGNU offer that MicroEmacs doesn't? The only thing I don't
like about MicroEmacs is that it doesn't offer mouse support in the PC version
and its script language is very verbose so it takes a long time to load a large
startup file.
MicroEmacs (any of the variations) is a very big set of sources. Most people
don't upload only the executable as most people prefer to make use of the
sources as well as the executable (actually, I think the authors prefer the
source code to be distributed with the executable). Thus the reason that it
probably isn't here yet. I think I have an archive around here of the
executable to MG2a plus a couple of docs.
MG offers a much friendlier Amiga interface than MicroEmacs -including mouse
and menu support. It also has a nice file browser for searching directories
for the file to load. I would say that most people used to the Amiga could
make direct use of MG with reading the documents (I haven't yet). I don't
think that MG has much in the way of scripting, but I haven't sat down to look
at it yet. I've made use of MG under AmigaOS, VAX/VMS, and SysV Unix. I've
made use of MicroEmacs 3.x under AmigaOS (a little – didn't like the
interface), Vax/VMS, SysV Unix, and Sun Unix (heavily). Truly a portable pair
of programs!
David Masterson
I thought I had MicroEmacs 3.09e ready for upload yesterday, but something went
wrong. As you said, it is a VERY big file! But I'm hoping to get it into
shape today and upload it tonight. The version I have had the source and
documentation files compressed with ZOO, and that has to be changed to ARC
before uploading, hence the delay.