Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!barryf From: barryf@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Barry B. Floyd) Subject: Re: MicroEMACS for Windows (was: A Good Windows Programmers Editor) Message-ID: Nntp-Posting-Host: aix01srv.aix.rpi.edu References: <29514@cs.yale.edu> <29515@cs.yale.edu> <1991Mar17.161430.224@athena.mit.edu> <29526@cs.yale.edu> <2572@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> Date: 20 Mar 91 21:25:50 GMT Lines: 37 scott@cs.hw.ac.uk (Scott Telford) writes: >In article <29526@cs.yale.edu> spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky) writes: >> >>Another note: I found you can test for the DOS version as follows: >> >>!if &seq $version "3.10" >> ; Whatever you want to do only on the DOS version, like >> ; setting colors or binding i-shell. >>!endif >> >>This way you can use the same emacs.rc for both setups. The Windows >>version sets $version to "3.10e". >No! v3.10e does *not* refer to the Windows version! v3.10e was an >ordinary interim release of uEMACS released sometime early last year. >It just so happens that the Windows version was based on v3.10e. >BTW, the *very* latest release is v3.10m - it's been available by FTP from >midas.mgmt.purdue.edu since March 7. It's got various bugfixes, support >for the NEC PC9801 and Fujitsu FMR-70 Japanese DOS machines, pop-up >windows (like Jove), extended regexps and DOS & OS/2 file locking. > _____________________________________________________________________________ >| Scott Telford, Dept of Computer Science, scott@cs.hw.ac.uk | >| Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. scott%hwcs@ukc.uucp | >|_____ "Expect the unexpected." (The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy) ______| Would someone load the latest version to CICA.CICA.INDIANA.EDU? It may be out of date. barry -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Barry B. Floyd \\\ barry_floyd@mts.rpi.edu | | Manager Information Systems - HR \\\ usere9w9@rpitsmts | +-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute--------------------troy, ny 12180-+