Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!geneva.rutgers.edu!hedrick From: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: text editor for uport Message-ID: Date: 4 Jan 90 22:16:56 GMT References: <5924@cps3xx.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 20 I've used all of the major micro emacs'es, i.e. jove, uemacs and mg, on SV/AT. I currently use a version of mg that has been fixed in the following ways: - esc and ? work on file names, command names, and buffer names - there are no limits on line length or lines containing nulls. You can even edit binary files. uemacs version 10 seems to be a considerable improvement over previous releases, so you might want to consider it. I haven't tried it on SV/AT, but a previous version of uemacs worked, so I can't believe bringing it up would be much trouble. In general uemacs has more programmability, but ? doesn't work in file names, etc. I haven't had much trouble putting software from the net up on SV/AT, as long as it supports System V release 2 and doesn't require 32-bit int's or large arrays. However I haven't tried any of the maximally hairy packages such as netnews. (Of course Gnu Emacs, gcc, etc., are impossible, since the Gnu project assumes 32-bit processors with lots of memory.)