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From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski)
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Subject: Re: Customizing Symbolics ZMACS
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Date: 24 Aug 90 20:30:01 GMT
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In-reply-to: pcolsen@super.ORG's message of 24 Aug 90 03:39:05 GMT

In article <31999@super.ORG> pcolsen@super.ORG (Peter C Olsen) writes:
> Has anyone got a library of ``customization'' code for Zmacs, the
> Symbolics editor?  I want to install a TeX mode on my Symbolics.  
> I've tried hacking the Gnu TeX mode lisp, but it is (as yet) beyond
> my capacity.  

Depending on how much Symbolics Zmacs and TI Explorer Zmacs have diverged,
some of the code in /usr/jwz/public/ on spice.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.254.139)
might help you.  There's about 5 megs of Explorer code there, about 1/3 of
which is portable Common Lisp.  Get the file _readme.text.  There isn't a 
TeX mode there, but there is a BibTeX mode; also there is a PostScript mode
which I converted from a GNU Emacs PostScript mode, so looking at the kind
of changes I had to make might help you port TeX mode.  Oh yeah, I'm sure 
that the PostScript mode is Symbolics compatible.

There's also some code for Explorer-like logical pathnames in VaxLisp and
CMU-CL, and a portable make-system, which in some ways isn't as powerful as
the Symbolics or Explorer make-system (doesn't support multiple versions in
the same source tree, for example), but it has a much less crufty syntax.

		-- Jamie