Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: GNU EMACS on an IBM PC/PC clone? Message-ID:Date: 29 Sep 89 13:14:43 GMT References: <22617@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Distribution: usa Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 72 In-reply-to: David_Anthony_Guevara@cup.portal.com's message of 28 Sep 89 13:09:56 GMT You may be interested in Freemacs: Freemacs is a programmable editor. The .EXE file is only 21K because it only contains a language interpreter and text editor primitives. The bulk of the programming is done in MINT, which is a string-oriented language. Freemacs is yet another Emacs clone. Emacs was first written at MIT by Richard M. Stallman. There are a number of Emacs clones for the PC available. Freemacs has two distinguishing characteristics: o Freemacs is the only freely copyable programmable editor. Epsilon and Brief are examples of commercial programmable editors. (MicroEmacs has a macro language, but that doesn't mean I think it's programmable). o Freemacs is the only IBM-PC editor that tries to be like GNU Emacs. You may freely copy this software. I only ask that you send improvements back to me for incorporation into the package for the rest of us. The distribution is available from one or more of the following sources: EMACS15E ARC The executables and MINT code. EMACS100 ARC Zenith Z-100 version. Requires EMACS15E. EMACSPEL ARC Spelling checker. EMACSEGA ARC A collection of EGA utilities EMAC15ES ARC The .ASM source. CUHUG BBS: (315)268-6667 - 1200/2400 8N1, 24 hrs. File area 25. No registration required to download Freemacs. Internet: Anonymous FTP to simtel20.army.mil from PD: Internet: Anonymous FTP to grape.ecs.clarkson.edu [128.153.13.196] from /e/freemacs Bitnet && UUCP: Send mail to archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu. You may use archive-server%sun.soe.clarkson.edu@omnigate if you are on Bitnet, or uunet!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!archive-server if you are using UUCP. The mail message should consist of 'help' if you want to learn how to use the archive server, or else if you just want to get Freemacs, then send the following lines as a separate mail message. If you have an unusual return address (i.e. not Bitnet, nor Internet, nor known to uunet), use the 'path' command to give a path relative to one of the above nets. send freemacs emacs15e.aa send freemacs emacs15e.ab send freemacs emacs15e.ac send freemacs emacs15e.ad send freemacs emacs15e.ae send freemacs emacs15e.af The files that you will get back should be concatenated together, run through uudecode, and thence through an unARCer such as arc or pkxarc. Or else send $15 (copying fee) to the author. This will assure you of the latest version. Please specify floppy format: 5.25", 1.2 Meg 5.25", 360K 3.50", 720K Russell Nelson 11 Grant St. Potsdam, NY 13676 -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Live up to the light thou hast, and more will be granted thee.