Gnu Emacs?
Terry Hull
terry at eecea.eece.ksu.edu
Fri May 5 01:02:22 AEST 1989
In article <8905041409.AA01880 at cunixb.cc.columbia.edu> ta-ari at CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Ari Shamash) writes:
>Hello there, Networld!
>
>Has anybody managed to get GNU emacs compiled and running? I have
>heard it is possible, but I would like to find out how difficult it is
>to do before I attempt to do it. Does anybody have any advice?
I thought several people might be interested, so I decided to post my
response.
If you have XENIX V/386, you can get the GNU distribution and compile
it be just editing the Makefiles and config.h. No problem except you
need a little disk space. (The full distribution is over 8 MB.) If
you have XENIX V/286, GNU Emacs is not worth the trouble. It depends
on 32 bit integers, has a massive array used for lisp storage, and
would be VERY slow on the '286 even if you could get it to run. For
'286 folks, I would recommend Jove or one of the versions of
MicroEmacs.
I've been using GNU Emacs as my main editor on a XENIX machine for
about 18 months now. It runs better (faster) there than it does on
an AT&T 3B15. If there are specific questions, please send me mail.
--
Terry Hull
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State University
Work: terry at eecea.eece.ksu.edu, rutgers!ksuvax1!eecea!terry
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