On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 5:26 PM Adam Thornton via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> I finally got an Emacs running on v7--it's on misspiggy at LCML now as > "ue". > > It's Microemacs 3.6; what I did was to clone > https://github.com/troglobit/MicroEMACS and check out the first commit. > > Some experimentation later, it had the usual problem with v7 and DEC > linkers that not all the function names (er, more generally exported > symbols, but in this case, function names) were unique in the first 7 > characters (which is 6 if you're working with DEC OSes). So a bit of sed > later and I had something that built, linked, and appears to run with > TERM=vt100 set. > The usual hack was to use '#define somethingLong sl23'... did that not work here? > Arrow keys, naturally, don't work, but C-b, C-f, C-p, C-n do. > > I think I'm going to just make a GH repo of it, but I'm happy to send the > tarball, or tar.uue, upon request. I find UUCP kinda fragile on my simh > installation, and I don't know how to get to Miss Piggy's (although the > uucp commands are there), so, well, uuencoding, a pasteboard buffer, > iTerm2's "Paste Slowly", and cat will work as a file transfer mechanism. > > Now I'm going to run over to TUHS and announce the same. > Cool. there were a lot of different micro emacses... why'd you choose this one / this version? Warner
