Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!lethe!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: GNU Emacs ... 0.3! Message-ID: <1990Sep9.174939.16737@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 9 Sep 90 17:49:39 GMT References: <1990Sep7.164514.19481@watcgl.waterloo.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: SF Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 21 bmacinre@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Blair MacIntyre) writes: >Just a quick note: >The guy who is porting Gnu Emacs put up version 0.3 Beta, which corrects >a few very important problems: >- no more busy wait! >- uses Amiga ENV:TERM instead of Manx env variables. > >So, if you want to play with it, it's almost usable now. Of course, the >thing still takes 3 minutes to load, so it's not for the casual user. >:-) Hmmm. My sysadmin friends who use GNUemacs just fire it up once at the beginning of the day and never leave it, so in a system with a lot of memory, the three minutes might not be a big deal. Have you tried it enough to know if it can be used the same way on the Amiga (spawn all other jobs from within GNUemacs and capture the output into edit buffers as needed)? This could be a real productivity environment for software development, if so. Kent, the man from xanth.