On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Rugxulo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:21 PM, dmccunney <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Ralf A. Quint <[email protected]> wrote: >>> At 08:51 AM 1/29/2013, Michael B. Brutman wrote: >> >>>>- Editors do not need interpreted languages in them. (EMACs users, >>>>please forgive me.) >>> >>> EMACS? Like the operating system, that's just lacking a decent editor? >:-} >>> (Doesn't EMACS stand for "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping"? :-P >> >> Actually, Escape Meta Alt Ctrl Shift... > > Yuk yuk. Yeah, we've all heard the jokes. ;-) It's actually > "Editor Macros", as you well know.
"Editing MACroS" Since the original emacs was a set of macros written in the TECO language available on MIT's ITS system. the name was descriptive. Richard Stallman took several existing packages, merged and regularized them, and the result became emacs. He recounted knowing he was successful when emacs became what everybody at the MIT AI labs used, and that he had forgotten how to do various things in the underlying TECO language. I believe Stallman's original TECO macros are still available, but you would need the ITS version of TECO with Control-R mode to use it. Stallman considered Emacs an editor design whose initial version was expressed in TECO, because TECO was available for the purpose. When TECO went away at MIT, it got re-written in Lisp. > Latest GNU Emacs for DJGPP (prebuilt binaries) is 23.3, and IIRC, the > main .EXE is over 12 MB nowadays. (So much for 8 MB ....) Don't get > your hopes up on using it effectively on old machines (even with > CWSDPMI swapping)! A smaller alternative would be JED, but I still > haven't gotten around to packaging that up for us yet. (Or some > variant of MicroEmacs, e.g. JASSPA.) Depends on what you want. If your desire is an editor with emacs keystroke assignments and overall design, there are a number. If you want macros, the number drops. If you want a Lisp interpreter, you're looking at a DJGPP port, and good luck. What I ran back when was v3.6 of Daniel Lawrence's MicroEMACS, which also built "out of the box" from supplied source on my AT&T 3B1 Unix workstation. (v18.xx of Gnu Emacs was available for the 3B1 as well. I spent some time customizing it to do sensible things when various special purpose keys on the 3B1 keyboard were pressed.) At some point, I'll have to try to recreate the macro package I wrote for MicroEMACS that made it use WordStar key mappings. ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
