Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!chinet!saj
From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GNU-Emacs 18.51 for Atari ST (TOS) posted to comp.binaries.atari.st
Summary: Preliminary experience on 1040 promising
Message-ID: <9096@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 28 Jul 89 03:26:46 GMT
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Organization: Chinet - Chicago, Ill.
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I know, we were told not to expect much from GNU EMACS with only 1 Meg, but 
after determining that it only used about 300 K text+data+bss I gave it a
shot.  Just start it, read some stuff in and push a few keys, nothing serious.
  Impressive hardly describes it.  Looks just like on the VAX, only it starts
up faster.  But I have a couple of ???-s.
  The start-up seems to crash rather than finishing normally (something about
invalid argument stringp null, as I remember).  Control Z gives a kind of
no-op (the bottom line flashes 'program terminated' ever so briefly, then
I'm back in EMACS.  And dired seems to be getting confused, probably by the
$HOME environment variable in \ form (rather than / form) which is really
there for the use of the shell, msh, rather than EMACS.
  But the program runs fast, and there's a tremendous amount there.  This is
going to be fun to explore.
   I hope the diffs from a widely available source distribution show up on
the net.  
                                       Steve J.