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From: km@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: GNU EMACS (not microemacs or micrognu) for Mac?
Message-ID: <2300@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Date: 21 Feb 89 21:27:06 GMT
References: <1989Feb15.173445.13897@cs.rochester.edu> <6674@cadnetix.COM>
Reply-To: km@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu (Ken Mitchum)
Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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In article <6674@cadnetix.COM> pem@cadnetix.COM (Paul Meyer) writes:
>[]
>	Speaking of GNU Emacs, has anybody ever looked at the
>feasibility of GNU Emacs for the Mac?  (NOT microemacs or micrognu,
>but the real thing with only the impossible stuff (subprocesses, shell
>commands, etc.) taken out...

The problem with porting GNU Emacs to the Mac under the Mac OS is that
RMS is very much opposed to Apple because of its lawsuit against Microsoft
("look and feel"), and won't allow any #ifdef MACs in the code.

MacJove is another alternative to "REAL" emacs, but if you don't like
MicroEmacs, you probably won't like Jove either. The last posted version
was 4.9, but 4.10a (an interim version) is available from our system.
4.10a includes window moving/sizing/zooming and filename/directory name
completion, along with display bugfixes. I don't know if 4.10a will be
posted to comp.binaries.mac or not (there is not a lot of demand for Jove),
but if you are interested in 4.10a, let me know.

The GNU Emacs source IS supplied with A/UX, but of course, is not supported
by anyone.

 Ken Mitchum
 Decision Systems Labs
 km@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu