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From: km@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Where can I buy Emacs or some other Real Editor for my Mac?
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Date: 26 Jul 89 23:44:22 GMT
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Reply-To: km@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)
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In article <33492@apple.Apple.COM> bnfb@Apple.COM (Bjorn Freeman-Benson) writes:
>When I last asked about editors, I asked about VI and got many
>responses.  Now my neighbors say "vi?! yuck!".  So, I'm back again,
>hat in hand, asking for information on Emacs or other Real Editors
>for the Mac.  I would like to buy such a beast (say less than $600).
>What I want for my money is:
> * multiple windows on multiple monitors
> * almost all interaction is done without my hands leaving the keyboard
>What would be nice, but not essential is:
> * extension language or hooks
>
>Thanks again to those who've helped before,
>Bjorn N. Freeman-Benson
>bnfb@june.cs.washington.edu

You might try MacJove, which features both traditional Jove/Emacs keyboard
usage along with a Mac interface for those who want it. It does not yet offer
an extensibility language, but you can do quite a bit with macros, which are
fully supported, along with your own keybindings and customization. The last
version posted to the net was 4.9. This was over a year ago. The current
version is 4.12, and is available via anonymous ftp from our site in the
directory pub/jove/4.12, in both source form and as a Stuffit archive of the
program itself. I don't know if it will be posted to the comp.binaries.mac
or not. The price is right ($0), so you might as well try it. You might also
want to try Micro-Emacs, which is also available.

 Ken Mitchum
 Decision Systems Laboratories
 Univ of Pgh.
 km@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu