Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Freemacs (was Re: Programmer's editor wanted) Message-ID:Date: 12 Aug 89 15:36:37 GMT References: <27714@srcsip.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 31 In-reply-to: rogers@orion.SRC.Honeywell.COM's message of 12 Aug 89 09:20:20 GMT In article <27714@srcsip.UUCP> rogers@orion.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Brynn Rogers) writes: 1|o Extensible user interface via a program language. (With a ready-to-use | emacs style command set.) 2|o Multiple over-lapping windows. 3|o Mouse support. (If you have used Logitech's Point then you know what I | mean by this..) 4|o re-configurable menus. 5|+ Can edit (simultaneously) 10-30 files with a total length much greater | than the available memory. 6|+ Can run a make-utility without leaving editing. Preferrably swaps itself | to disk for the duration of the make. AND if it captured the output.. |o=required |+=would like.. |(__________ahuttune@hupu.hut.fi________ FREEMACS meets 1,2, and maybe 5 Not quite. Freemacs 1.x does indeed do number 1, partially number 2 (only two windows, one above the other), number 3, and number 6. I am working on Freemacs 2.0, which will support 5 and (completely) 2. Apparently, many people are not using Freemacs because it is limited to editing files in memory with a 64K limit per file. I personally don't really care -- I don't find much need to edit files larger than 64K. However, I am also adding a folding ability to Freemacs 2.0, because that's interesting to me. It's also going to be in C so that the 68K PC people can also use it. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu])|(70441.205@compuserve.com)| (Russ.Nelson@f360.n260.z1.fidonet.org)|(BH01@GEnie.com :-)