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From: ikhala@netcom.com (I'Khala)
Subject: Re: Elle
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Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 09:47:34 GMT
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In article <DK070p.Jr0.0.-s@cs.vu.nl>, Kees J Bot <kjb@cs.vu.nl> wrote:
>aswNS@hamp.hampshire.edu (Albert S Woodhull) writes:
>
>>On 19 Dec 1995 03:46:48 GMT HoHoHo (shaddapp) (cmoore@europa.com)
>>wrote in comp.os.minix:
>
>>: Can someone give me a little bit of a rundown on how elle works?
>
>>IMHO the best way to use elle is ...
>
>... to not use elle.
>I just remembered that I promised Andy to fix a problem that elle has
>with the last two columns on the screen.  Now I managed to get column 79
>back, but elle insists on using 80 for an exclamation mark to mark line
>wrapping.
>
>So I hack the code a bit right?  Well, maybe I'm spoiled with too much
>Minix or something, but the source of elle is so ugly that I wouldn't
>know where to begin to change it.  There is a reason why it is compiled
>with all warnings off.
>
>Does anyone know an Emacs-like compiler that fits in 64K+64K that can
>replace elle?
>
>(I feel old remembering that my first editor was ed.)
>--
>	                        Kees J. Bot  (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
>	              Systems Programmer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam


I seem to remember compiling microEmacs v3.8(?) on 1.5, but that was a
while ago.  I'm looking for the sources for 3.11. It not's the latest
release (that's 3.12 i think ... ;-) ) but it does not contain some
added features that might make a port of 3.12 to minix a bit more
labor intensive ...

ikhala
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