From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 21:47:35 +0100
From: Digby Tarvin digbyt@acm.org
Subject: porting linux programs and drivers to plan9
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>> 
>> My vote is for Microemacs. It may not be as good as what Plan9
>                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> has to offer, but until versions of a Plan9 editor is available for Unix,
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>heh.  I was sort-of surprised when my first plan9.ini iteration
>failed and 8.5 wouldn't start (can't remember why) and I just
>mindlessly typed c:;ed /n/c:/plan9/plan9.ini and it worked :)
>
>Unfortunately I think screen editors like microemacs require cursor
>addressing stuff, which I believe is nowhere in Plan9.  It would seem
>that to get it working all of the (say) ANSI terminal ESC sequence
>parsing stuff would have to be stuck in the console driver (if you want
>it to work w/o 8.5 running).
> 
Micromacs already has a selection of output device types that
can be compiled in, of which termcap is just one. Many systems like
msdoss and MACs have special custom code, so there is no reason
(that I can think of, other than it may be non-trivial) not to
have a Plan9 type that drives the screen the same way 8.5 does.

Alternatively, a vanilla 'termcap' style implementation would
be a useful editor to use when telneting in from a non-plan9
system, or using a serial terminal. Or run it along with an
8.5 based vt100 emulator..

I don't think I would want to hack this stuff into the kernel.
Lets keep that small.

Regards,
DigbyT
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Digby R. S. Tarvin                                              digbyt@acm.org
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