Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Half-baked Ideas, New Projects Message-ID: Date: 6 Mar 89 17:06:14 GMT References: <8903061529.AA11042@jade.berkeley.edu> Organization: Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 24 In-Reply-To: <8903061529.AA11042@jade.berkeley.edu> 451061@UOTTAWA.BITNET (Valentin Pepelea) writes: > Michael Portuesi writes in > Message-ID: > > > Now all you have to do is port GNU Emacs to the Amiga. > > It's been done already. An entire Fish disk has been devoted to it, and I'm > talking about the real thing, not MicroEmacs 3.9e. > The editor to which you are referring is MG, which is a variant of MicroEmacs that has the "look and feel" of GNU Emacs. It lacks the Lisp language that miracles like abbrev and dabbrev mode are written in. A real port of GNU Emacs would occupy much more than just one disk in Fred Fish's collection. One disk would barely be enough to hold the executable binary. -- Michael Portuesi / Information Technology Center / Carnegie Mellon University INET: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu / BITNET: mp1u+@andrew UUCP: ...harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ "You just don't get off a spaceship and run." --Avon