Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!hedrick From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: features of small emaces Message-ID: Date: 12 Jun 88 00:52:14 GMT Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 36 I'm looking for an emacs version that has the following features: - runs on Microport System V/AT. (Since all known Emacs versions, aside from freemacs, work on System V, in practice this is simply a requirement that the program will run on the 286 segmented architecture. Only Gnu absolutely requires a large linear address space. Most emacses intended for micros use linked lists of lines, which works fine.) - will edit files containing arbitrary contents. (Jove limits line length and cannot handle files containing null bytes. Some versions of Microemacs work fine, although if the file doesn't end in a newline they may create one. I have used microemacs 3.9e for editing binary executables. mg seems to handle arbitrary files, although when I tried using it to edit its own executable on a Pyramid, it truncated the file.) The simplest test for this property is to use the editor to edit its own executable, and see if a new copy is identical to the old. - has ? and escape recognition for file names, M-X commands, and buffer names (file names being most important). (Jove does well here. Microemacs has no recognition at all. mg seems to have it for M-X commands only.) So far I have found some micro editor with each of my desired features, but not one with them all. In general, Jove meets my user interface specs, but can't handle files with long lines or nulls, whereas Microemacs variants either do or can easily be made to handle long lines and nulls but don't do recognition. I keep seeing new versions of all of these programs, but no progres towards a single editor with both a good user interface and handling arbitrary files. Anybody know of one I have missed? I've heard rumors of patches to Microemacs to do recognition, but I haven't been able to find anybody who is willing to give them to me (or preferably, post them). I understand there is a new microemacs release, but nothing has been said about what's in it, so I don't want to pay for a long-distance phone call to upload it unless I know in advance that it contains at least filename completion.