[HECnet] emacs, was Re: installing LPs on RSX

[Sampsa Laine]

Just out of of interest, how do you do ESC-X (Command completion with tab) and ESC-% (Query search/replace) on MicroEMACS?

sampsa


On 30 Apr 2015, at 21:41, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

> On 04/30/2015 04:38 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>>> EMACS would be nice but I haven't used it as much. It sounds like a
>>>> chore to write or modify an editor in Pascal.
>>> 
>>>   MicroEMACS was ported to RSX at one point, wasn't it?  Or did I dream
>>> that?
>> 
>> Yes, it was. I didn't do the port, but some friends of mine did, many
>> many years ago. I let it loose on the world though...
>> But MicroEMACS have some issues, such as limits on how large files it
>> can edit, as well as some limits in functionality. So I'm always looking
>> for something better... :-)
> 
>  Sounds good to me.
> 
>  Many years ago, I worked as an MS-DOS software developer.  To put a
> timeframe to this, the 16MHz 80286 was the current state of the PeeCee
> art.  My computer at home ran Ultrix, and I loved emacs (GNU emacs
> v18.59 I think) so I wanted something emacs-like under DOS.  Initially I
> used MicroEMACS, which I liked, but as you said it does have some
> limitations.
> 
>  I then ran into an editor called Freemacs.  It is the best editor I've
> ever seen for MS-DOS.  It too has some limitations, but it is far more
> flexible than MicroEMACS.  Much like GNU emacs, it is an editor core
> that implements an interpreter for a language (called, in this case,
> "Mint") in which higher-level functions are written.  Mint is sorta
> Lisp-inspired but it's not very close to Lisp.
> 
>  I'd love to do an implementation of Freemacs for the PDP-11 at some point.
> 
>               -Dave
> 
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