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From: nj@magnolia.Berkeley.EDU (Narciso Jaramillo)
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Subject: Re: Emacs -- what's out there now?
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Date: 19 Mar 91 22:26:36 GMT
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In-Reply-To: amgreene@athena.mit.edu's message of Tue, 19 Mar 91 20:12:03 GMT

In article <1991Mar19.201203.28507@athena.mit.edu> amgreene@athena.mit.edu (Andrew Marc Greene) writes:

   I'm looking for a
   *real* gnu emacs, if possible -- one that handles lisp.  

The only existing port of GNU Emacs to to the Amiga that I know of
is relatively unstable, and will probably break on your '030.

   I'd be willing to settle
   for a micro emacs that has an AREXX port and that doesn't guru on
   me, if no one has a real Gnu emacs yet.

Mg3a (available on one of the Fish disks--I'll look it up) implements
a reasonable subset of GNU emacs' basic commands, has never gurued on
me (I've been using it fairly frequently for about a year), and has a
full-featured ARexx port (you can have it send you lines, buffers,
regions, characters, etc.).  In fact, it probably has enough stuff to
allow you to define `fake' modes (e.g. C mode, TeX mode, etc.)  I say
`fake' because it doesn't actually allow you to define new local
keymaps; but with key-binding and `name-last-kbd-macro', you could do
something like bind C-c to a REXX C-mode dispatch macro, then have
that interpret the following character(s) and invoke the proper macro.


nj