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From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Has GNU Emacs been ported to the Mac?
Message-ID: <1991Jan28.192349.27019@visix.com>
Date: 28 Jan 91 19:23:49 GMT
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In article <1991Jan21.044736.22968@servalan.uucp>, rmtodd@servalan.uucp
(Richard Todd) writes:
> A MacOS port is an entirely difficult kettle of
> fish, and I suspect that you won't see this anytime soon, if only because the
> sort of people who know enough about GNU Emacs to do this are also the sort
> who won't touch MacOS with a ten-foot pole :-).

Or don't have copious amounts of free time.  I'll admit that I've thought
about it.  It doesn't seem worth the effort until v19 comes out, which will
support mouse tracking and multiple windows.  The only technical difficulties
would be the subprocess handling, which I, at least, could learn to live
without :)...

--
Amanda Walker
Visix Software Inc.