Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!convex!killer!elg From: elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: GNU Emacs Message-ID: <3973@killer.UUCP> Date: 2 May 88 06:38:38 GMT References: Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas Lines: 25 in article , mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) says: > In reality, I suspect that once MG gets customizable to the point > where I can write a C mode, a Lisp mode and a Shell mode for it, I'll > be happy. > > Has anyone else thought about porting GNU Emacs to the Amiga? Now > that there are many Amigas out there with megs of memory to burn, > running GNU Emacs doesn't seem like an impossiblity. A better dream might be to port "jove". My (admittedly-hacked) Jove is almost indistinguishable from GNU Emacs, except for the lack of an "undo" command and true Lisp extensibility. It already runs on IBM PC's and Macs, so an Amiga port isn't too off-the-wall. Only big problem might be that Jonathon Payne hates to comment, so it's a real payne making mods to the code (of which I had to make several, just to make it run under Sys V.2 -- hopefuly fixed in the new version just posted). The lack of an "undo" means that I don't use it when I have GNU available, but, considering that GNU & all its support files takes up over 8 megs of disk space (Pyramid 90x), I think I'll pass on Amiga GNU... -- Eric Lee Green elg@usl.CSNET Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191 ihnp4!killer!elg Lafayette, LA 70509 "Is a dream a lie that don't come true, or is it something worse?"