1 May
2015
1 May
'15
8:37 a.m.
Just out of of interest, how do you do ESC-X (Command completion with tab) and ESC-%
(Query search/replace) on MicroEMACS?
sampsa
On 30 Apr 2015, at 21:41, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 04/30/2015 04:38 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Yes, it was. I didn't do the port, but some friends of mine did, many
many years ago. I let it loose on the world though...
But MicroEMACS have some issues, such as limits on how large files it
can edit, as well as some limits in functionality. So I'm always looking
for something better... :-)
Sounds good to me.
Many years ago, I worked as an MS-DOS software developer. To put a
timeframe to this, the 16MHz 80286 was the current state of the PeeCee
art. My computer at home ran Ultrix, and I loved emacs (GNU emacs
v18.59 I think) so I wanted something emacs-like under DOS. Initially I
used MicroEMACS, which I liked, but as you said it does have some
limitations.
I then ran into an editor called Freemacs. It is the best editor I've
ever seen for MS-DOS. It too has some limitations, but it is far more
flexible than MicroEMACS. Much like GNU emacs, it is an editor core
that implements an interpreter for a language (called, in this case,
"Mint") in which higher-level functions are written. Mint is sorta
Lisp-inspired but it's not very close to Lisp.
I'd love to do an implementation of Freemacs for the PDP-11 at some point.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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EMACS would be nice but I haven't used it as much.
It sounds like a
chore to write or modify an editor in Pascal.
MicroEMACS was ported to RSX at one point, wasn't it? Or did I dream
that?