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Article #5894Re: emacs for ms/pc-dos machines?
From: mink
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1986 16:26
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1986 16:26
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> JOVE, (Joshua's own version of Emacs) is available for the PC. It is public > domain, and a almost totaly complete version of it's mainframe counter part. > JOVE can be found on several main frames, and offers some very nice features. > I preffer it to Emacs. There was also a program for CP/m several years ago > that might be available for the PC. It was Uince (I think). I remember > something about it later becoming Perfect Writer, but I am not sure. Perfect Writer, which I got bundled with my Columbia VP, is a pretty good EMACS clone--no LISP extensibility, but a reasonable formatter and control commands identical to EMACS. Recent versions of Perfect Writer, after Thorn-EMI bought Perfect Software have a different user interface, I understand. -Doug Mink
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!gatech!seismo!harvard!talcott!cfa!mink From: mink@cfa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: emacs for ms/pc-dos machines? Message-ID: <191@cfa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 11:26:23 EST Article-I.D.: cfa.191 Posted: Fri Mar 7 11:26:23 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Mar-86 09:07:03 EST References: <561@whuts.UUCP> <15200014@hpcvlo.UUCP> <557@kontron.UUCP> <20@ur-tut.UUCP> Organization: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Lines: 14