On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 4:36 PM Bruce Axtens via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Thanks for all the chat about the other issues. Regarding these ones > however there hasn't been much. Do I assume that Freemacs isn't a thing > anymore and that everything that needs a maintainer has one? > > > * Apply some much-needed patches to the Freemacs editor > > Where's the list of fixes?
It's in the FreeDOS Files Archive at Ibiblio, where we keep Freemacs. Russel provided a long list of fixes that he never rolled into Freemacs, and I didn't either. But someone who's motivated to get into Freemacs can probably apply these: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/edit/emacs/txt/fixes.txt > > * Write some cool edit modes for Freemacs. > > Hmm ... that's a TRAC dialect. I've been meaning to learn TRAC and > even add it to the Exercism stable. Maybe I should add MINT instead. Can > MINT be used stand-alone or only inside Freemacs? > MINT can only be used in Freemacs; there's no standalone MINT interpreter. If you're interested in adding an edit mode to Freemacs, I think writing an html-mode would be a welcome addition. I added some notes here, long ago: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/edit/emacs/txt/html.txt > * Volunteer to become the maintainer for a program that doesn't have an > active developer. > > Hmm ... sound masochistic. That'd be quite a few programs, no? > FYI, saying "being a FreeDOS program maintainer sounds masochistic" is a very annoying comment on an email list that has a bunch of FreeDOS program maintainers. Being a "maintainer" for FreeDOS programs may not require a ton of work. DOS stopped being a moving target in 1995 so it's not like you're chasing new features. For many programs, most of the "maintainer" work will be about fixing bugs, or updating things so it can compile on OpenWatcom. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
