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Re: progress in e-mail, such as AOL [message #352881] Tue, 19 September 2017 18:05 Go to next message
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Originally posted by: Bob Eager

On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:40:36 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:

> On 18 Sep 2017 18:41:07 GMT, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 2017-09-18, Charles Richmond wrote:
>>> On 9/17/2017 4:41 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [snip...] [snip...] [snip...]
>>>>
>>>> [1] Reading Compute's Amiga Machine Language Programming Guide from
>>>> 1988,
>>>> they recommend Emacs for the Amiga for coding. How cool is that? :-)
>>>
>>> I thought the Amiga had its own wonderful text editor that is favored
>>> by most Amiga users... although it is unavailable on other systems.
>>
>> Well, a lot of people pirated CygnusEd ...
>>
>> I don't remember any decent editor shipping with the OS. There were
>> ports of MicroEmacs, [...]
>
> Ah, now I remember. They mention MicroEmacs in the Compute's Amiga
> Machine Language Programming Guide.

I still use it sometimes.



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Re: progress in e-mail, such as AOL [message #352985 is a reply to message #352881] Wed, 20 September 2017 17:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On 19 Sep 2017 22:05:41 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:
>
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:40:36 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>
>>> I don't remember any decent editor shipping with the OS. There were
>>> ports of MicroEmacs, [...]
>>
>> Ah, now I remember. They mention MicroEmacs in the Compute's Amiga
>> Machine Language Programming Guide.
>
> I still use it sometimes.

Sounds intriguing. Got to find a copy. Found this
<http://aminet.net/text/edit/MicroEMACS.lha> link with a date stamp from
1983. Still have to figure out how to create an ADF disk image to run in
an UAE emulator, lacking real Amiga hardware. May be at the weekend...
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Re: progress in e-mail, such as AOL [message #352987 is a reply to message #352985] Wed, 20 September 2017 17:44 Go to previous message
Anonymous
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Originally posted by: Bob Eager

On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:21:05 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:

> On 19 Sep 2017 22:05:41 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:40:36 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>>
>>>> I don't remember any decent editor shipping with the OS. There were
>>>> ports of MicroEmacs, [...]
>>>
>>> Ah, now I remember. They mention MicroEmacs in the Compute's Amiga
>>> Machine Language Programming Guide.
>>
>> I still use it sometimes.
>
> Sounds intriguing. Got to find a copy. Found this
> <http://aminet.net/text/edit/MicroEMACS.lha> link with a date stamp from
> 1983. Still have to figure out how to create an ADF disk image to run in
> an UAE emulator, lacking real Amiga hardware. May be at the weekend...

I don't use it on an Amiga. I use it on FreeBSD!



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