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From: nbvs@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nicko van Someren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: anybody ported GNU Emacs?
Keywords: Emacs
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.004249.14376@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: 4 Jun 91 00:42:49 GMT
References: <906@vaxc.aud.auc.dk>
Reply-To: nbvs@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nicko van Someren)
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
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In article <906@vaxc.aud.auc.dk> mmj@.vlsi.auc.dk (Mads Meisner-Jensen) writes:
>Has anybody ported GNU Emacs to the archimedes?
>I know of the port made by David Pilling, but I have heard
>that this isn't very good and it doesn't run in the
>desktop neither.

I have had a look at GNU Emacs (the Pillingthing was MicroEMACS) and it is
so full of UNIXisums that I gave up.  If there is great demand I will have
another look but I think it will be many months work unless someone writes
a UNiX lib for RISC OS that does pipes, fork and a few other UNIX nasties.

Nicko
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