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From: kim@amdahl.UUCP (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Swedish copyright laws (really, XEDIT mode)
Message-ID: <4890@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Dec-86 20:26:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 30 20:26:39 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 30-Dec-86 22:36:47 EST
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In article <221@unirot.UUCP>, pooh@unirot.UUCP (One damn minute, Admiral) writes:
> 
> I still haven't heard whether anyone has heard of an IBM xedit
> mode for Emacs. . .

At a former place of employment, I had to make the transition from a
VM and XEDIT environment, to a UNIX(R) and EMACS (or vi) one.  It took
me all of 30 seconds to decide on EMACS over vi :-).

As part of learning how to use (and abuse) Emacs, I developed a set of
MLisp macros that provided much of the functionality of XEDIT ... edit
ring, block operations, and so forth.  Never could find a way to emulate
the prefix area short of hacking up the source, though (sigh).

It ended up being something over 600 macros (which is when I "discovered"
the hard coded limit on macros in the macro.h file).  I was just learning,
remember ... I could probably do it in only 300 macros now!

We were running on an 11/780 at the time, and it would take emacs many
seconds to come up ... which led to even more macros to handle and filter
a new csh buffer that would grab all my aliases, etc.

Anyway, though I wouldn't call it an XEDIT *mode* exactly, much of XEDIT
*can* be emulated with Emacs ... but there is a price to pay!

/kim


P.S.  This was using the Unipress flavor ... not GNU.



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