Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!lll-winken!arisia!sgi!shinobu!odin!sgi.com!scotth From: scotth@corp.sgi.com (Scott Henry) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: gnu emacs and NeWS Message-ID: Date: 12 Dec 89 17:01:42 GMT References: <8912121640.AA11252@romano.cs.wisc.edu> Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Reply-To: scotth@sgi.com (Scott Henry) Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc, Mountain View, CA Lines: 46 In-reply-to: dave@CS.WISC.EDU's message of 12 Dec 89 16:40:17 GMT dave> I recently started doing some work on a system where the preferred dave> window system is NeWS (if it matters, a Sun3 running 4.0 and NeWS). dave> I wanted, of course, to use emacs on this beast. My first reaction was [deleted...] dave> My questions: dave> 2) has anyone added NeWS support to emacs? There is a NeWS mode for GNU Emacs, and it is certainly worth a try. It's moderately old, and just plain doesn't work (I haven't figured out why) on 18.55 & SGI's version of NeWS. Here's an extract of an article posted over a year ago: ------- Forwarded Message Date: Sun, 4 Sep 88 16:43:13 EDT From: Chris Maio To: info-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu, NeWS-makers@brillig.umd.edu Subject: NeWS support for Emacs 18.52 available A NeWS interface for GNU Emacs 18.52 is now available on columbia.edu in pub/ps-emacs.tar.Z, or via mail. This release is compatible with Emacs versions 18.49 through 18.52, and NeWS versions 1.0 and 1.1. No new functionality has been introduced over that offfered by previous versions, but all known bugs and compatibility problems have been addressed. Included in the patch kit is major mode for editing PostScript code which PostScript programmers may find useful in and of itself. The Internet name servers are still advertising an obsolete address for columbia.edu, so if you have trouble connecting the ftp server, try specifying an alternate address (128.59.16.1 or 128.121.13.2). To get the NeWS interface kit via mail, send a message containing the line "send NeWS emacs-support" to archive-server@columbia.edu. The shar file that will be returned is approximately 75k bytes long. Chris ------- End of Forwarded Message -- Scott Henry | Tardis Express -- when it Information Services, | absolutely, positively Silicon Graphics, Inc | has to be there -- yesterday.