Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 08:34:30 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Jed editor? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960515083119.3406B-100000@harlie.bfd.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960515003057.3448F-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>
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On Wed, 15 May 1996, Brian N. Handy wrote: > > > I noticed JED isn't in the ports collection, and it *almost* compiles > > > > That one is cute, yes. It's got its own extension language, if my memory > > doesn't fail me, which looks a bit like FORTH. Called `slang' or some > > such thing. :-) can look like FORTH or like C now. > Yep, so in this package deal you'll get a port for S-Lang and Jed. > There's hardly any changes involved, which means the bulk of the effort > will be me learning how to make a port. Hopefully I'll have it sorted > out in an evening or two. Make slang.a into a shared library, because it's also used by his spreadsheet program, his news reader, and I think one other program. This is how I've got it installed at home. I've also been looking into doing comprehensive joe-mode bindings, for those of us who have those commands burned into our fingers (not quite wordstar bindings, but most claimed wordstar bindings get a few wrong, like using ^K^M for move (wordstar had that bound to something else so used ^K^V). Anyway, my rambling alarm just went off, so I'll leave it at that.
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