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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-05-01 08:37, Sampsa Laine wrote:
> Just out of of interest, how do you do ESC-X (Command completion with tab) and ESC-% (Query search/replace) on MicroEMACS?

M-X is not "command completion", but extended commands, and MicroEMACS 
do not have them.
Nor do I remember any query replace function. Like I said, MicroEMACS 
has its limitations.

	Johnny

>
> 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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