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- From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
- Subject: GNU Emacs and Forth (Was: What's wrong with screens)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.100505.11618@email.tuwien.ac.at>
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- Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
- References: <1k3hkfINNjgk@transfer.stratus.com> <1993Jan27.040153.14435@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <1k57vqINNjgk@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 10:05:05 GMT
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- In article <1k57vqINNjgk@transfer.stratus.com>, nick@sw.stratus.com
- (Nicolas Tamburri) writes:
- |> penev@venezia (Penio Penev) writes:
- |> > I use GNU emacs to write these lines. It has its virtues. But if I
- |> > wanted to write a FORTH-major-mode, It would have to mimic my FORTH
- |> > editor. So why bother?
- |>
- |> If you used text files, you wouldn't have to bother. Text mode works just fine
- |> for Forth, (although a major mode wouldn't hurt.)
-
- There actually is a forth mode for GNU emacs and you can find it in
- the TILE distribution (ftp from a GNU archive site). IMO it needs a
- bit more work.
-
- - anton
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