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From: david@csource.oz.au (david nugent)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: Emacs Editor for OS/2?
Message-ID: <99.25E63D6A@csource.oz.au>
Date: 24 Feb 90 17:17:23 GMT
Organization: Unique Computing Pty Limited
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In a message dated 24-Feb-90, Mark Towfigh writes:

 >> Has anyone seen or heard of an emacs-like editor that runs on a
 >> PS/2 under OS/2 (either standard or extended edition)? If there is a
 >> port of GNU Emacs, that would be even better :-)
 >
 >Unfortunately, there is no port of GNU Emacs that I know of right now.
 >In fact, I don't think it will be worth it until OS/2 2.0, when memory
 >addressing problems and size constraints will go away, and the OS will
 >be written in 386 code -- GNU Emacs needs to access a lot of memory.


MicroEmacs has been ported to OS/2 and should be readily available from the "usual" sources.


david

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