Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ucla-cs!cit-vax!oberon!castor.usc.edu!blarson From: blarson@castor.usc.edu (Bob Larson) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: MicroEMACS 3.8i standout bugs (fix) Message-ID: <3574@oberon.USC.EDU> Date: Wed, 22-Jul-87 05:42:34 EDT Article-I.D.: oberon.3574 Posted: Wed Jul 22 05:42:34 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jul-87 02:42:08 EDT References: <384@rebel.UUCP> Sender: nobody@oberon.USC.EDU Reply-To: blarson@castor.usc.edu (Bob Larson) Distribution: world Organization: USC AIS, Los Angeles Lines: 36 Keywords: MicroEMACS standout In article <384@rebel.UUCP> george@rebel.UUCP (George M. Sipe) writes: >I am working on (#definable) patches which will provide greater GNU Emacs >compatibility. These patches will change the default key bindings and >function names. They will also change the appearance of the mode line >and other cosmetic changes. Further, I hope to have an automated method >of 'GNUifying' the documentation. Are you unaware of MicroGnuEmacs (mg)? mg 1b is avaiable for ftp from jade.berkeley.edu in pub/mg/mg1b.tar.Z (compressed tar). (mg 1a appered in mod.sources, and should be avaiable from archive sites.) Mg is a small, portable, emacs-like (no extention language) editor designed to act as much as practical like GNU Emacs, and has no direct association with the GNU project. Mg was based on v30 rather than Laurence's 3.6 because we felt that a clean, mostly bug-free base was more important than the few additional features 3.6 offered. (This was the consensus of the short-lived microemacs mailing list, the major decenting opinion was Dave Laurence. The original mg autors met via that list.) Since then, mg and Laurence's microemacs have diverged. ** Personal opinion, Asbestos suit on ** From what I have seen about the number of patch versions of Dave Laurence's microemacs, he still needs better beta testing (does he have any?) on a wider variety of machines. We did at least 4 beta distributions of mg before releasing either version. ** normal mode on ** If you are interested in doing development/support of mg, send a note to mg-support@ucbvax.berkeley.edu . (Several people have expressed an interest in having a version for messydos, but so far nobody has volenteered to do the work.) -- Bob Larson Arpa: Blarson@Ecla.Usc.Edu Uucp: {sdcrdcf,seismo!cit-vax}!oberon!castor!blarson "How well do we use our freedom to choose the illusions we create?" -- Timbuk3