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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!umd5.umd.edu!roissy.umd.edu!mark From: mark@roissy.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Where can I get NetBSD ports of emacs,tcsh? Date: 13 Sep 1993 14:02:17 GMT Organization: University of Maryland Lines: 27 Message-ID: <271uh9$rni@umd5.umd.edu> References: <1993Sep9.024434.28050@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <CDAC3y.LF1@sztaki.hu> NNTP-Posting-Host: roissy.umd.edu In article <CDAC3y.LF1@sztaki.hu> pink@fsz.bme.hu writes: > >Emacs sucks more, because ( of the changes in a.out i think ) it cannot dump >itself. Tinker with unexec.c! I have succeeded to make it produce xemacs with >at least a valid exec header, but it doesen't work. I didn't have time to study >the new a.out format, maybe someone! Isn't it possible to have emacs not to dump >itself, but to compile the lisp files every time? (slow like hell.) >BTW i mean emacs 18.58, i don't have spare MB's for later monsters. :-( . Once upon a time (back when I was foolish enough to use emacs :), I built emacs several times. One of the configuration items is "emacs can unexec on this system". If you don't configure that (or maybe configure not-that), it builds a system that loads all the standard .el files when you start emacs. I know this option was used on Apollo DOMAIN systems and VMS. Of course, emacs is slow enough to start up anyway... If you just like typing "^A^K^K" to delete a line, you might try finding "mg" from some archive site. It has basic emacs functionality, but doesn't include some advanced features such as lisp interpreter, mail reader, telnet program, Zippy the pinhead quote generator, or "Doctor" program. hmmm... Is my bias showing? :) Well read the content too, then flame away! Mark S.