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In article <BtzCxr.KqA@news.udel.edu> johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:


   >I'm looking for an Emacs port for the Mac: I have microemacs from
   >sumex-aim, but I really want a complete emacs, instead of the
   >tiny subset that microemacs has. (It doesn't even have search-and-replace!)
   >If I can find a PD or shareware version, great, but I'd be even willing
   >to pay for a commercial port or clone, like Epsilon on the PC. 

   This question has an easy answer:  Alpha (shareware) is an excellent
   emacs- clone/workalike.  The current version 5.04 is available on
   cs.rice.edu in /public/Alpha.  It's got most of the same features
   that make emacs addictive;  it's fully programmable through its 
   embedded implementation of "tcl" and has with grep-like search/replace
   built-in.  For $25 shareware, it's possibly the best buy in Mac software.

The answer is simple, but it is not a good answer to the question. Alpha
differs from emacs in a lot of things. Emacs is also nice because of all the
.el files you can get, which you should rewrite in a C-like dialect to get it
working in Alpha.

Alpha will work for a lot of people, but not for 'real' gnu-emacs users on for
example UNIX work stations. It would be very nice to have a port of gnu-emacs,
but the FSF foundation seems to have a strange opinion about porting emacs to
the Mac.

Marc