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- From: poffen@rushmore (Russ Poffenberger)
- Subject: Re: Emacs under MS-Windows (was: MicroEMACS under GUI - what&where?)
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 22:56:20 GMT
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- plyon@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Paul Lyon) writes:
- :
- : In article <WEISMAN.92Sep1191748@macaroni.osf.org> weisman@osf.org (Dave Weisman) writes:
- :
- : > Has anyone researched what's necessary to either port GO32 to
- : > DPMI, or, take a deep breath, do a real emacs port to Windows?
- :
- : 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.
- :
- : 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.]
- :
- : Paul Lyon
- :
- :
- :
-
- Interestingly, I have, in my hands, a supposed FULL port of GNU emacs to
- DOS. SOmebody gave it to me (on 2 hi-density 3.5" floppies), saying it
- is just like the GNU emacs under UNIX. The only thing missing are most of the
- lisp files, but that is OK, because it is supposed to be able to use the
- lisp files from the GNU distribution.
-
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