TITLE
GNU Emacs 19.25, Amiga BETA RELEASE 2.0, available for download
VERSION
This updates the previous version of emacs (18.58 a1.26) to a
resonably current FSF version.
COMPANY
The Free Software Foundation
'n me.
AUTHOR
A whole host of people including quite a few Amiga people. I
don't know who all to thank, but Richard Stallman and David Gay
come to mind.
You can reach me at dgilbert gamiga.guelphnet.dweomer.org
WARNING
Even though, as GNU software, this comes with NO warrenty, this
comes with even less warenty. This is a BETA version. It works
on my machine.
DESCRIPTION
Emacs is a very powerful, but sometimes cryptic, text editor. Its
basic features are similar to those of the MEmacs editor which
comes with AmigaDOS (in the Tools directory), but has numerous
other facilities:
- unlimited undo.
- language specific editing, with automatic (re)indentation.
- a dialect of lisp as extension language, leading to extreme
reconfigurability.
- abbreviations for commonly typed words.
- complete on-line manual.
- powerful search & replace facilities (including wildcards).
- direct mail and news reading ability
- everything you could every desire in an editor and some of what
you'd like in a good OS
NEW FEATURES
Since the previous release (1.26), the major change has been to
move to emacs-19.25. Emacs-19 has many new features and
optimizations. Many of the new lisp packages require Emacs-19.
OLD FEATURES
- menus, mouse, clipboard, rexx and workbench support.
- public screen support
- For the most part, it's working "good enough" --- I'm using for most
everything. I havn't, however, deleted 18 from my disk yet ;).
MISSING EMACS-19 FEATURES
- multiple "frames" (what emacs calls windows) support.
- fonts/faces (emacs does support choice of *one* font)
- mouse support isn't completely Emacs-19 compliant.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
- AmigaDOS 2.04
- At least 2MB of memory (emacs uses about 750k + memory for the
files being edited).
- 5MB of free disk space for the binary version, 20MB for the
source version (but you can remove some of the files once it
has been installed). If you want to build it, don't even
ask...
- Emacs works with a 68000 (A500,A2000), but is a bit slow. It is
very pleasant to use with a 68030/25MHz ...
KNOWN BUGS
- exec-path just doesn't seem to work right. Some things that
call external programs won't find them. Sometimes there is a
way around as in vc-path for vc. However, anything you put in
gnuemacs:etc (an extra assign to gnuemacs-19.25) will be found
as will anything in s: I honestly havn't figured this one out
yet.
- "vm" creates buffers with *huge* filenames. The format is uses
to generate a buffer name from a "forwarded" buffer puts in a
colon. This causes a lockup. This may be true for other
buffer names with a colon.
- I havn't tested menus yet. I am told someone has munged the
menus to work just like other v19 menus. Someone should verify
this.
- clipboard interaction doesn't work exactly as expected. If you
cut from some other app, then use kill-region, then use yank
followed by yank-pop, you don't get what you cut.
- Some issues with env-vars remain. Emacs keeps internal copy
which may not be appropriate on the Amiga. I havn't decided
how to hack this up yet.
- It seem inexplicably slightly slower in screen movement from
the 18 port. May be due to creaping featureism.
WHERE TO GET IT
The following distributions are available:
I will be uploading these to aminet first. I assume that they will
end up in some incoming director first.
o binary only:
All the files necessary to use emacs. Has only a subset of the lisp
files, the rest may be got from a standard emacs distribution.
Distribution:
size: 2219649 bytes
md5sum: 29f173e21896600ad014a47026ddff53 a2.0bEmacs-bin.LHA
FTP:
site: ftp.wustl.edu (aminet)
file: pub/aminet/utils/gnu/a2.0bEmacs-bin.LHA
BMS:
site: gamiga.guelphnet.dweomer.org
file: new:downloads/a2.0bEmacs-bin.LHA
o full amiga version:
All the files necessary to compile emacs, all the lisp files, etc.
Should be noted that this file is *big* ;)
Distribution:
size: 7480551 bytes
md5sum: 29f173e21896600ad014a47026ddff53 a2.0bEmacs-bin.LHA
FTP:
site: ftp.wustl.edu (aminet)
file: pub/aminet/utils/gnu/a2.0bEmacs-src.LHA
BMS:
site: gamiga.guelphnet.dweomer.org
file: new:downloads/a2.0bEmacs-bin.LHA
o "Good luck" version:
You can get any individual file from here... but caviat emptor!
It's my devel dir... and it's open under the spirit of GNU to all.
(but please don't get the whole thing uncompressed!)
BMS:
site: gamiga.guelphnet.dweomer.org
dir: imp:cwork/emacs-19.25
o Complete distribution, latest version
Distribution: DAT, 8mm, cartridge tape
mail dgilbertgamiga.guelphnet.dweomer.org for pricing.
This port was based extensively on the work of David Gay (a1.26) which
was based on that of Mark Henning (gnuemacs v1.10).
DISTRIBUTABILITY
This is all GNU software, and is available under the standard
GNU Public licence, V2.x or later. See file COPYING in the
distribution for more information.
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