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- This is a brief blurb describing JRD's port of GNU Emacs v 18.55 to the
- Atari ST.
-
- This version of GNU Emacs contains a bunch of improvements over the
- 18.51, posted a while back by Edgar Roeder. In particular, it's less
- *nix-ish; it uses real ST pathnames, understands text files, doesn't
- need TERMCAP bd, etc. In addition, it uses the ST mouse. (See
- LISP\ST-MOUSE.EL; or fire it up and click right, for a hint) There's
- more to do there; but since most of the mouse stuff is written in Lisp,
- it's easy to add functionality. I'll be interested to hear what other
- folks think of the default behaviour I've provided.
-
- There's also support for fonts in the popup menu substrate; you'll find
- the font-loading hooks in that same Lisp file.
-
- Finally, this Emacs is dumpable, though it's not done the same way as
- the *nix version. See IMG2EXE.C and ST-DUMP.C, for the guts of the
- dumping mechanism. I've supplied the 'bare' emacs, for those of you
- who'd like to dump your own (ie 'cause you find bugs in my stuff, or
- because you'd like to build an emacs with less stuff in it, to save
- memory).
-
- Since Emacs is so huge, I haven't supplied everything that comes in the
- kit from FSF; in particular I've left out the INFO directory, and some
- of the miscellaneous stuff that's *nix specific. I *have* supplied all
- the C and Lisp source, so you should be able to reconstruct all the
- executables from what's here.
-
- The stuff is in the form of two large ZOO files, EMCS1855.ZOO, and
- ESRC1855.ZOO. The former is executables and compiled Lisp files, the
- latter is C and Lisp source. Each is split up into a bunch of smaller
- pieces, to ease tyhe FTP burden. Concatenate 'em all together, and
- enjoy!
-
- JRD@Stony-Brook.SCRC.Symbolics.COM.
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