Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: GNU Emacs Message-ID: Date: 2 May 88 21:22:19 GMT References: , <3973@killer.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: <3973@killer.UUCP> > *Excerpts from: 2-May-88 Re: GNU Emacs Eric Green@killer.UUCP (1353)* > 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. True Lisp extensibility is the one big feature missing from all Emacs-like editors that run on the Amiga. And it's really the only important feature. MG is just fine otherwise. > 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... if you don't keep all the Lisp and C source online and you get rid of the support files that your average Amiga user will have no need for (the terminal-specific support stuff, FTP, telnet, RMail, netnews, Fortran Mode, etc etc), I suspect that GNU Emacs on an Amiga would occupy only a fraction of the space it would require on a multi-user system, where the needs of all users must be accounted for. --M Michael Portuesi / Carnegie Mellon University ARPA/UUCP: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu BITNET: rainwalker@drycas "Memories are uncertain friends, when recalled by messages" -- OMD, "Messages"