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- 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.
-
- 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).
- - 3.5MB of free disk space for the binary version, 11.3MB 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: ftp:
- site: ftp.wustl.edu (aminet)
- size: 3M
- file: pub/aminet/utils/gnu/a2.0b-emacs-19.25-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: ftp:
- site: ftp.wustl.edu (aminet)
- size: 14M
- file: pub/aminet/utils/gnu/a2.0b-emacs-19.25-src.LHA
-
- 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 |
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