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From: lang@PRC.Unisys.COM (Francois-Michel Lang)
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Subject: Re: Enhanced Prolog interface for Emacs
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Date: 17 Aug 89 21:46:55 GMT
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In article <8908141430.AA01823@asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov> chris@ASYLUM.GSFC.NASA.GOV (Chris Shenton) writes:
>Does anyone have an enhanced Prolog interface for Emacs? I'm using Masanobu
>UMEDA's prolog.el which is good, but I'm used to using Quintus Prolog's
>Unipress [ :-( ] Emacs macros which do a lot more. I have not had any success
>trying to convert/compile the Quintus/Unipress macros into GNU Emacs lisp, and
>that would probably violate copywrongs anyway.
>
>Thanks.

I have only recently started using Quintus Prolog with GNU
(I used it w/the Unipress interface for 3 years), and I too agree
that GNU's prolog.el has very little of the functionality
of Quintus' Unipress interface.  I have patched together
GNU versions of a very small subset of the Unipress MockLisp stuff,
and plan to do more.  Eventually.  I have also *repeatedly* asked
Quintus to provide a GNU interface equivalent in functionality
to their Unipress interface, but they have (so far) shown no
interest in developing this.  You'd think they'd want to do this...


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