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- From: plyon@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Paul Lyon)
- Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.editors,gnu.gcc.help,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools,gnu.emacs.help
- Subject: Re: Emacs under MS-Windows (was: MicroEMACS under GUI - what&where?)
- Message-ID: <PLYON.92Sep4193943@emx.cc.utexas.edu>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 00:39:43 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.085917.4248@OSGO.KS.HE.Schule.DE>
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- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
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- In-reply-to: weisman@osf.org's message of 2 Sep 92 02:17:48 GMT
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- In article <WEISMAN.92Sep1191748@macaroni.osf.org> weisman@osf.org (Dave Weisman) writes:
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- > Has anyone researched what's necessary to either port GO32 to
- > DPMI, or, take a deep breath, do a real emacs port to Windows?
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- I suspect one will have to wait until Windows-NT is released before
- there will be an emacs port. The main problem, I believe, in doing
- such a port is the tagged pointer scheme that is used in emacs to
- implement the elisp primitives. This cannot be adapted to a 16:16
- segmented memory model without very far-reaching alterations. Since
- Windows NT uses a 32 bit flat memory model, there should be less of a
- problem, depending on what provisions MS have made for full screen
- text mode console i/o. If they insist that one go through the Windows
- graphics interface to do serious user interaction, then one will have
- to convert emacs to that. As far as I can see, one should wait for
- emacs version 19 before doing this, since that will do its user
- interface in a way more compatible with a event queue driven
- interface.
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- Of course, one could also try switching to OS/2 version 2.0. An emacs
- port (which works just fine, in my experience) has been available
- since the general release in April. This is not a PM app, but it will
- run in a PM window, so one can do cut and paste to the clipboard if
- need be. [There is also a port of gcc 2.2.2 available as well.]
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- Paul Lyon
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