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Article #2673Re: GNU-Emacs 18.51 for Atari ST (TOS) posted to comp.binaries.atari.st
From: Stephen Jacobs
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1989 03:26
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1989 03:26
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I know, we were told not to expect much from GNU EMACS with only 1 Meg, but
after determining that it only used about 300 K text+data+bss I gave it a
shot. Just start it, read some stuff in and push a few keys, nothing serious.
Impressive hardly describes it. Looks just like on the VAX, only it starts
up faster. But I have a couple of ???-s.
The start-up seems to crash rather than finishing normally (something about
invalid argument stringp null, as I remember). Control Z gives a kind of
no-op (the bottom line flashes 'program terminated' ever so briefly, then
I'm back in EMACS. And dired seems to be getting confused, probably by the
$HOME environment variable in \ form (rather than / form) which is really
there for the use of the shell, msh, rather than EMACS.
But the program runs fast, and there's a tremendous amount there. This is
going to be fun to explore.
I hope the diffs from a widely available source distribution show up on
the net.
Steve J.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!chinet!saj From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: GNU-Emacs 18.51 for Atari ST (TOS) posted to comp.binaries.atari.st Summary: Preliminary experience on 1040 promising Message-ID: <9096@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 28 Jul 89 03:26:46 GMT References: <799@sbsvax.UUCP> <5440043@hplsla.HP.COM> Organization: Chinet - Chicago, Ill. Lines: 17