Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!eris!mwm From: mwm@eris.berkeley.edu Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc,net.emacs Subject: Re: GNU Emacs on the Amiga Message-ID: <932@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Mon, 30-Jun-86 15:13:31 EDT Article-I.D.: jade.932 Posted: Mon Jun 30 15:13:31 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Jul-86 05:08:02 EDT References: <1024@spice.cs.cmu.edu> <533@ecn-pc.UUCP> Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: mwm@eris.UUCP () Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 24 Xref: watmath net.micro:14972 net.micro.pc:8932 net.emacs:2087 In article <533@ecn-pc.UUCP> sandersr@ecn-pc.UUCP (Robert C Sanders) writes: >There is, and has been, an EMACS port for the Amiga and other computers > posted in this news group in the last several months. If you watch > net.micro.pc, and net.sources, you will see microemacs-3.7 being posted > soon by lawrence@duncan. It is a port of GNU emacs that has been fixed > to work with most micro-computer compilers. It was originally ported > to the Amiga, and has since been expanded for the other micros. Get it > soon. > - bob Unless Lawrence has radically changed things, 3.7 is NOT a port of GNU emacs. 3.5 and 3.6 where not ports, and had different commands sets. It would not be unreasonable to assume that 3.7 had been changed to have a GNU-like command set. Likewise, the 3.x microemacs are a variant of Dave Conroy's microemacs, which appeared on the net as v30. Both of these pre-date the Amiga, so it's highly unlikely that they were first ported to the Amiga. Of course, 3.7 could have been developed on the Amiga, or Lawrence could have restarted from scratch. There is a variant of v30 (which is faster than 3.6) that looks like GNU and runs on the Amiga. It is currently being tested by the bug-microemacs group, and the target date for release is July 31st.