Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!harrier.ukc.ac.uk!arc1 From: arc1@ukc.ac.uk (A.R.Curtis) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: More EMACS Questions Message-ID: <285@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> Date: 4 Mar 89 18:44:06 GMT References: <3335@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> Reply-To: arc1@ukc.ac.uk (A.R.Curtis) Distribution: comp.emacs Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Lines: 56 In article <3335@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> templon@silver.UUCP (jeffrey templon) writes: > > ... C-h i ... >be "delete-previous-character" or somesuch. I think this may be because I am >using MICROemacs, not GNU emacs, ... > >Are the differences large between the two? Is there GNU emacs for the Mac? ^^^^^ Understatement of the year! uemacs is intended to run on such smaller machines as PC's (hence the "micro" (mu) at the front) but GNU-Emacs tends to occupy any from 700K to over 1MB as a *binary* so obviously this is intended for VAXEN and SUNS etc. GNU-Emacs is very programmable. All (well, nearly) the modes are written in GNU-Lisp and so you can write your own modes. uemacs isn't so programmable. ue3.8 and above are starting to get useful again (but I think this is defeating the point of calling it micro-emacs). The info package is GNU-Emacs, normally bound to C-h i. C-h in uemacs, as you say, is normally del*-prev*-char*. You could change it to describe-command or something of course to get the feel. >How does one "install" the packages previously posted (yesterday?) I am >particularly interested in the edt package, since I do most of my work on >a VMS vax... Well you can byte-compile the edt.el stuff (GNU-Emacs I take it. Must have missed the stuff that was posted) and put this in your own gnu-lisp directory or in the system one if you're super-user (or own the directory). If you put it in your own, then you'll need it on your load-path. In your .emacs: (setq load-path (cons "" load-path)) and (erm, can't remember the syntax off hand) (autoload 'edt "edt" nil t nil) ;; something like that >Is there GNU emacs for the VAX-VMS operating system? Yes, the compilation #ifdefs etc. allow you to specify VMS (I'm pretty sure) >P. S. I think the frequently asked questions message ... Haven't got a copy... Hope that helps Tony -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Curtis, Computing Lab. | Phone 0227 764000 Univ. Kent at Canterbury | Ext. 3812 or 7617 Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF | arc1@uk.ac.ukc