[HECnet] Emacs-clone for RSX?

[John Wilson]

From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se>

>With all that in mind, I decided to write my own Emacs clone instead 
>(yes, I got horribly upset with the lousy quality of most code I looked 
>at, if someone wants to hear some rants, contact me privately).
>
>I started about a month ago, and at this point, it's working, and quite 
>useful.

Way to go!  Very impressive.

>. Only works on ANSI terminals today. It would be doable to extend with 
>other terminal support, but I don't have any need, and since I do not 
>have, nor want to depend on curses, it will require coding to either 
>have a module to uses curses, if that is wanted, or handling of specific 
>terminals.

I agree.  The days of dozens of choices of real terminals are long over,
so the amount of extra work you'd do just for that one time that someone
dusts off a Teleray 1061 just to open one file and then turn it off forever,
is really not worth it.  Expecting someone doing real work to find an ANSI
terminal is totally fair.

John Wilson
D Bit