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Subject: Re: More EMACS Questions
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Date: 3 Mar 89 18:39:42 GMT
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>Are the differences [between Microemacs and GNU Emacs] large...?

Quite.  GNU is much more complete.

>Is there GNU emacs for the Mac?

What you probably mean to ask is "Is there GNU emacs for MacOS?", to
which the answer is no, and there probably never will be.  GNU will
run under A/UX, but Richard Stallman (Chief GNUisance) has vowed not
to support Apple in any way because of their lawsuit against HP and
Microsoft.  (Further details in etc/APPLE in GNU emacs distribution.)

>How does one "install" the packages previously posted (yesterday?)

Are you referring to the GNU Emacs Lisp Code Directory?  If so, the
EDT emulators listed there will only run under GNU.

>Is there GNU emacs for the VAX-VMS operating system?

Yes.

>I hope the answers to these will be positive -- I am trying to build a unified
>editing environment for the three machines (VAX/VMS, Mac, and Unix.)

It depends on *how* unified an environment you want.  You can certainly
have *some* kind of Emacs-like editor in all three places, but if you
want exactly the same thing you'll find the Mac will determine your
least common denominator, again assuming the Mac isn't running AU/X.
I'd go for GNU under VMS and UNIX and whatever "micro" Emacs is
available for the Mac.

=========
The opinions expressed above are mine.

"Suppose Apple *does* win its current windows lawsuit against
Microsoft and HP.  Suppose further that Next becomes the Macintosh of
the 1990s, forcing Apple to conclude that it desperately needs to
imitate Next's format in order to remain competitive.  Then what?"
					-- Glenn Groenewold, UNIX Review