Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rutgers!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Emacs for the Amiga 1000 ? (MicroEmacs?) Message-ID: <17539@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 14 Jan 91 18:09:14 GMT References: <1991Jan10.010629.6752@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu> <723@cbmger.UUCP> <17399@cbmvax.commodore.com> <17492@cbmvax.commodore.com> Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) Distribution: comp Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 69 In article vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) writes: >Oddly enough, AmigaOS microemacs resembles the GNU Emacs to the point >of confusion when one use them. I will not discuss the OS here, all >I'm interested in is the editor. (Can we leave the sarcasms now and go >on with the discussion?) That's true; GNU emacs resembles Gosling Emacs to the point of confusion. > I'm only asking for a set of GNU Emacs bindings for the subset of >the GNU Emacs commands that your MicroEmacs support and a way to >enable it in the editor. Ah...this is different from what you asked at first; claiming that a different command set is a 'bug' > >This is the output from GNU Emacs, M-x describe-function set-gosmacs-bindings: > set-gosmacs-bindings: > Rebind some keys globally to make GNU Emacs resemble Gosling Emacs. > Use M-x set-gnu-bindings to restore previous global bindings. > >The el code for the function is real short (see gosmacs.el in the lisp >directory), so the reverse of it shouldn't be hard to do either, esp. >since you already have implemented rebinding functions. In the immortal words of Knuth; 'This is left as an exercise for the reader' >I know I can rebind the keys, but you seem to think that people only >use one single Amiga all the time. I frequently use customer's >machines and I can't rebind the keymap every time I fire up an emacs >(and certainly not permanently). I've installed MG2a on the customer >machines I use most often as a temporary solution. If the customer is willing to let you install your own editor on his/her machine, I'll bet you could also install a configuration file of your own, too. Or you could bring your own configuration file on a floppy. Key binding, of course, works best from a configuration file. >-- Leonard > The problem of several people using the same Amiga (all of whom of >course wan't everything to behave differently) was discussed at the >Paris DevCon last year. Has there been any developments in that >direction? They would sure be appreciated... (I don't want to hear The answer, of course, is in configuration files and preference presets under 2.0. If its really important to you, then you will take the time to set up a presets disk for yourself, including configuration files for the application packages on your customer's machines that you intend to use. If its not important to you, you won't. andy -- andy finkel {uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy Commodore-Amiga, Inc. "God was able to create the world in only seven days because there was no installed base to consider." Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.