From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 11:22:34 +0100
From: Digby Tarvin digbyt@acm.org
Subject: porting linux programs and drivers to plan9
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>If you want microemacs on Plan 9, port it to Plan 9.
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Ok, ok, I take your point..

For the record, I was not asking for umacs to be ported, or complaining 
that it wasn't included. I was just responding to a post by someone
else wanting to know if others would find a port useful, and then 
responding to follow ups..

As a Plan9 licensee who hasn't had much time to play with his 
system yet, I for one feel that a few transition aids would let 
me get to the interesting stuff more quickly...

I actually quite like 'ed', and wouldn't swap it for emacs or
any other non line editor if I could only have one and not the
other. One needs line editors because cursor addressing and
graphics is not always available. or practical over
very slow network conections. Trouble is, I don't have 'ed' on
OS-9 etc...

Actually, I did write an 'ed' implementation for OS-9/6809 years
ago, but in 6809 machine language (no C compilers for micros in those
days.., and I wasn't going to mess with basic...). and used it happily
for several years as an undergraduate..but having done it once it is
no longer interesting..

Regards,
DigbyT
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Digby R. S. Tarvin                                              digbyt@acm.org
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~cthulhu/