Short: Emacs-19.25 for the Amiga, binary version. Author: A whole bunch of net gods worked on this one Uploader: dgilbert gamiga guelphnet dweomer org Type: text/edit Architecture: m68k-amigaos 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 dgilbert@gamiga.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. ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, University Of Guelph, Ontario | Two things can only be | |Main: dgilbert@gamiga.guelphnet.dweomer.org | equal if and only if they | |Backup: dgilbert@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================