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Article #4628Re: Programmer's Editor
From: Ran Atkinson
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 1991 18:12
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 1991 18:12
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In article <665@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl>, derek@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl (derek Carr) writes: >But I don't HAVE emacs on my (Sun4/pyramid) UNIX system, and have never >seen it on ANY unix system I've worked on - I've either had to use vi >(not too bad, but not too good either) the user-hostile sun editor, or >Framemaker - which sometime is rather a steam-roller to crack a nut! There is no reason not to have EMACS on ANY UNIX system. Among many others, the source for MicroEMACS is available from any comp.sources.* archive on the net, many PC BBSs, and elsewhere. GNU Emacs was originally developed on a UNIX system and has been ported to every UNIX system I've heard of and some UNIX version I hadn't heard of before perusing the GNU Emacs documentation. It is also widely available on the net and the FSF folks will even put it onto a Mag Tape for you for a very slight fee. If one doesn't want to use EMACS that is fine, but claims that it isn't freely available on UNIX (or MSDOS or AmigaDOS or MacOS) are absurd.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!ucbvax!decwrl!mcnc!uvaarpa!murdoch!usenet From: randall@Virginia.EDU (Ran Atkinson) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.emacs Subject: Re: Programmer's Editor Message-ID: <1991Feb14.181257.7348@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: 14 Feb 91 18:12:57 GMT References: <4736@mindlink.UUCP> <1991Feb13.141501.3498@software.org> <665@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Reply-To: Ran Atkinson <randall@Virginia.EDU> Followup-To: comp.emacs Distribution: comp Organization: University of Virginia Lines: 18