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From: breuel@h-sc1.UUCP (thomas breuel)
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Subject: MicroEMACS 3.6 and v30 for the Amiga (how to make it work)
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Date: Tue, 13-May-86 14:07:53 EDT
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|I just finished getting MicroEMACS 3.6 (the one just posted to mod.sources
|from Daniel Lawrence) up on Amy ... works great ... thanks, Daniel!
|
|To get this version, as posted, to compile and link with Lattice 3.03,
|the following changes must be made in the file "estruct.h":

MicroEMACS 3.6 has some severe type problems that show up if you compile
it with Manx 'C' and 16 bit integers. Running the code through lint
gives pages and pages of output. I wish someone would fix it.
Anyhow, you can also compile it fine with Manx 'C' and 32 bit integers,
and it works.

|The object file ends up being 71K+ (Whew!) ... anyone have the size that
|the Manx compiler produces?

The Manx compiler produces a 43k object file. (In case you are
interested, the relevant figures for C-Kermit are 113k with
Lattice and 77k with Manx).

|I am still trying to get the v30 version of MicroEMACS (posted a few weeks
|ago to mod.sources) with Mic Kaczmarczik's Amiga code to work.  I've
|installed all the diffs that Fred Fish posted, and I get clean compiles,
|but when I try executing it, the MicroEMACS window opens for a split-
|second, then closes, and the program terminates ... no error messages or
|guru med's ... just a (seemingly) normal exit.  Anyone in net.land have
|any ideas?  (Fred ... are you using Manx or Lattice?)

Presumably you are using the intuition driver. It makes reference to
a few undefined functions. To get it to run, you have to comment out
two lines in the file ttykbd.c:
	
	#ifdef NEVER
		keydup(KSUP,	"goto-bop");
		keydup(KSDOWN,	"goto-eop");
	#endif
	
Now, a few remaks:

MicroEMACS 3.6 has modes (CMODE, WRAP, OVERWRITE, READONLY, ...).
Unfortunately, it has several type errors (i.e. it doesn't pass lint
and doesn't work when sizeof(int)!=sizeof(char *)), and it appears
to be a little bit buggy (I had problems with it writing out more
to a disk file than is contained in the buffer).

MicroEMACS v30 is very reliable and compiles and runs fine regardless
of what size integers are. This gives me the impression that the author
was a bit more careful about type-correct programming. Also, on
the Amiga, v30 supports the mouse and menus. In fact, you can even
re-size the EMACS window. MicroEMACS v30 also supports incremental search.
It does not support automatic word wrap or modes.

Personally, I feel more comfortable using v30 (but, then, I feel
most comfortable using /bin/ed :-), but I wish that some features
of 3.6 could be incorporated. Other items on the wishlist are
regular expression matching and substitution (using the public
domain regexp package?), and some increadibly useful goodies like
kill-some-buffers-interactively, automatic buffer-name and command
completion, &c.

							Thomas.