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- From: d93-hyo@nada.kth.se (Hσkan Younes)
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- Subject: Re: How big an effort to port GNU emacs?
- Date: 15 Feb 96 12:53:03 GMT
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- In <oj6wx5rjd6z.fsf@hpsrk.fc.hp.com> koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) writes:
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- >benjamin@ritz.mordor.com (Joseph Thomas) wrote:
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- >> I was wondering what type of an undertaking it would be to try porting
- >> 19.30 to Amiga, possibly making a configuration spec to
- >> make later versions ported easier.
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- >Its no small task, although the existing ports may help you out quite a
- >bit.
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- >However, I'd really recommend porting xemacs instead of 19.xx. Xemacs
- >is so much faster for some things that it isn't even funny. It just
- >works better/faster/whizzier/cooler in general.
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- Comparing the source code for xemacs-19.13 with the code for
- emacs-19.25, I'd say xemacs seems easier to port. And that's
- exactly what I'm trying to do.
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- If anyone has some experience in similar projects they are
- wellcome to share it with me. I have a couple of questions
- concerning what to support and what to ignore.
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- -Lorens Younes
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