From: kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 09:28:49 -0400
Message-Id: <9605131328.AA01539@quasar.bloomberg.com >
To: njp AT tesa DOT demon DOT co DOT uk
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <338169640wnr@tesa.demon.co.uk> (message from Nick Plant on Thu, 09 May 1996 17:40:28 GMT)
Subject: Re: MicroEmacs for DJGPP ?
Reply-To: kagel AT dg1 DOT bloomberg DOT com

   From: Nick Plant <njp AT tesa DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
   Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 17:40:28 GMT

   Has MicroEmacs been ported to DJGPP ? Where can I get it from?
   Will it compile under V2?
   -- 
   Nick Plant

Yes.  I did a port to V1.12m4 of MicroEmacs R3.12 last year, with the help of
Mr. Taupin (TAUPIN AT rsovax DOT lps DOT u-psud DOT fr) who made some futher improvements to
better handle European languages and posted the source and executables
somewhere.  I do not know where the posting was made so you will need to
contact him to find that version.  I have not tried to port to V2 as I have
FINALLY found a working version of GNU Emacs recently, which I prefer.

Note that I could never get the mouse code working properly and since neither
of us was interested I put little effort into that code.  I finally just
disabled the mouse code in the configuration header.  I think anyone tackling
this in V2 would have an easier time.

Except for the mouse problem this version worked great, if I MUST say so.  I
used it for over a year and the only problem I had was when I installed QEMM
and QDPMI it would behave strangely for the first few keystrokes (it would
insert the first commands into the text and the screen colors were off) if
there was no init file in the current directory (mine was in the root dir).  I
think I finally solved this by putting the init file in the \bin directory with
the executable.  Apparently a difference in filefind behavior under QDPMI was
the culprit.

Email me directly if you cannot contact Mr. Taupin and I'll get the source and
the current port to you.  The port, to V2, should be rather trivial; the big
problems were solved porting from 16-bit code to 32-bit last year.

If memory serves neither of us sent the diffs to Daniel Lawrence last year
so...

-- 
Art S. Kagel, kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com

A proverb is no proverb to you 'till life has illustrated it.  -- John Keats