<joke> What about the editor from ISPF on OS/390? That looks pretty nifty </joke>
> On 31 May 2016, at 19:57, Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, Bob. > > On 2016-05-31 18:09, Robert Armstrong wrote: >>> "Small" in this case is more than 10 times the size of NEMA... >> >> Sorry, I'm joining this conversation late, but has anybody brought up JOVE? >> It's a pretty good Emacs clone and it runs on 2.11bsd. If it can run under >> BSD on a PDP11, it ought to be able to run under RSX!! :-) > > Welcome to the party. > Yes, Jove was one of the first things I looked at, since I do use it under > 2BSD. However, porting that thing turned out to be hairier than a monkey. It > intentionally avoids using the C standard I/O library, with the motivation > that they wanted it to be portable. And they have conditionals all over the > code. Unfortunately, not based on features or functionality available, but on > OS. So you have lots of #ifdef msdos, and whatnot, and if you have one > function or behavior like msdos in one place, you need to go in the code and > add your conditionals there too, as you obviously do not want to claim that > you are msdos, since that would pull in all the other msdos-specific parts as > well, which you probably do *not* want. :-) > > And it is very Unix-centric, even if people have managed to port it elsewhere. > > Johnny
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