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- From: creider@taptet.sscl.uwo.ca (Chet A. Creider)
- Subject: Re: MicroEmacs (was Re: Emacs implementations, list of, regular
- Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 19:22:08 GMT
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- In article <62594@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
- >MicroEmacs was easier to get working on Unix than GNU Emacs was for me,
- >so I think Unix should stay on the list. I was using SCO Unix.
-
- I don't think this is a fair comparison. If one compares MicroEMACS 3.11
- with gnome or freyja, MicroEMACS fares poorly. It just takes one look
- at estruct.h with its morass of non-independent defines for Unix systems
- to see that, however clean the code may be for other operating systems,
- it is an absolute mess for Unix systems. I've tried several times to get
- the code to compile and run on a Sun. After much work, I've managed to
- get it to compile, but not to run. This morning, starting with the latest
- version from Purdue, I can't even get it to compile. The last version which
- compiles with relative ease on a variety of Unix platforms is 3.8b, which
- I've compiled and used on Sun3s, 4s, and machines running Xenix. This is a
- shame because the macro language was incompletely implemented in 3.8b.
-
- Since Dan Lawrence doesn't seem to work on a Unix machine himself, I think
- Unix should be removed from the list until someone with access to a number
- of different machines running Unix (or at least Suns) can clean up the code,
- including the include files and also redo the makefiles. The last time I
- looked closely at the code, it was clear that the Sun stuff had been messed
- up by someone who had set up his/her system along 5bin lines. Since the
- vast majority of Sun users don't do this, this only added to the confusion.
-
- With reference to Suns in particular, if there is anyone running a relatively
- stock Sun with OS 4.1.x (mine is an IPC to which I've added gcc) who has
- succeeded in unravelling this mess and ended up with a program that actually
- runs, I would appreciate being sent the Makefile, estruct.h and anything
- else that was changed, such as unix.c.
-
- Thanks,
-
- Chet Creider <creider@csd.uwo.ca>
-