DOS/Win3.X Text Editors

Scott Stevens chenmel at earthlink.net
Fri Feb 4 22:32:42 CST 2005


On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 03:03:55 -0500 (EST)
der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca> wrote:

> > Everyone's got their favorite editor, the biggest fanatical base I
> > know of is the emacs crowd.  emacs contains an entire lisp
> > interpreter and will do just about anything (read mail, manage
> > files,...) but it's a bit ponderous.
> 
> And one of my pet peeves is people who assume that "emacs" means GNU
> Emacs.  Your description sounds like the GNU one, but not like any
> other emacs I'm aware of, historical or current.  It most certainly
> doesn't describe the Gosling variant I use.
> 

Is there a Gosling emacs source tarball that I can get somewhere that
will build on a modern UNIX, i.e. on my NetBSD boxes?  It's something I
would really like to try.

-Scott



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