Conference hydra::amiga_v1

I have posted notes here before - I am in continual communication with
the current maintainer of microemacs 3.9, and he and I are doing
cooperative development towards 4.0.  I don't yet have a version that
integrates the mouse for use on the Amiga, but I am expecting it within
a couple of weeks that has a LOT of Amiga-specific improvements.  (Dan,
the current maintainer, picked up an Amiga recently.) If you are truely
impaitent for some of the newest features discussed in VSG::MICROEMACS,
such as capabilities for writing an EDT emulator, and if you have a C
compiler, give me a ring and I'll have you compile up a set!

Well, John did exactly that!  To get your Amiga executable copy of a
preliminary new version of Microemacs (3.9gJ), read VSG::MICROEMACS
topic number 36.

    Has anybody tried to make this work with Roy Lomicka's EDT.CMD?
    It would require an "AMIGA.CMD" in the same manner as the VMS.CMD
    and ATARI.CMD which are posted in VSG::MICROEMACS notes 36.*.
    
    I am going to download the executable and the CMD files tonight
    and see if I can figure out how to modify the ATARI.CMD to the AMIGA.
    Shouldn't be to tough if I can figure out the keypad keys are called.
    
    I am also assuming, should I get this figured out, that all these
    files should be concatinated and put into the EMACS init file (.emacsrc)

    Any help and suggestions appreciated (I'm fairly new to EMACS).

    	Regards....  Clint
    

Unless you have a slow disk, the most general way to "concatenate" these
files is to have your .emacsrc file contain:

	execute-file amigakeys.cmd
	execute-file edt.cmd

The above is just an example.  The actual file names may be different.

I figured out the Atari keyboard by binding a random key to
"describe-key" and performing a describe key on each function key and
keypad key, noting what FN-prefix key it came out as.  I might point
out, however, that apparently the delay in my getting a mouse-capable
version of Amiga 3.9e is related to a problem with function keys.  What
do the send to OTHER applications?

    Has anyone uploaded a version of uEmacs 3.9gj?  I tried to get in
    to VSG::MICROEMACS but have trouble accessing it from my site. 
    I'd like the executable for Amy if possible,  source would be nice
    if compileable from Lattice v4.
    
    By the way, is this the mouse version?
    
    Thanks,
    
    John
    

I compiled a version of (I think it was) 3.9gj under Lattice 4.0.

Jeff Lomicka has it...

John    

VSG is node address 24.93.  Sometimes they don't notice when the server
goes down.  You can try VSG1, VSG2, VSG3, etc, if you have trouble.

3.9gJ does NOT have Amiga mouse support.  Mouse support is available for
VMS (using VSII) Ultrix (using VSII) and Atari.  I will shake the bushes
again for the Amiga mouse support.

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Note 36.5                Yet another preliminary release                 5 of 11
PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ "Jeff Lomicka"                      10 lines  15-FEB-1988 13:38
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I now have an Amiga version of 3.9gJ in
	PRNSYS::DUA1:[LOMICKAJ.39G]EMACS.AMIGA.
thanks to some hard work from a cooperating Amiga owner.

This version doesn't have mouse support, but it does (in theory)
support arbitrary bindings to the META and ^X prefix functions, so that
Roy's the EDT package should work with it, if you can figure out what
the keypad keys are called.

    re. -5
    
    The keys along the top (F1-F10) return FN0 thru FN9 normally and
    FNM-FNY (I think) when shifted. The keypad keys, on the other hand only
    return their literal meaning (except for the top row which return
    nothing). I am assuming now that support for a programmable keypad is
    not supported in the Amiga version of MicroEmacs. 
    
    On Fish #119 there is a very nice Amiga.rc that binds the top row of
    the function keys and diplays the bindings in a window along the top.
    
    Still would like to get an EDT compatible somthing or other ( I
    wonder how the SEDT port is coming ).
    
    		Regards....   Clint