[Simh] Emacs-clone for RSX?

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<joke> What about the editor from ISPF on OS/390? That looks pretty nifty </joke>

> On 31 May 2016, at 19:57, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Bob.
> 
> On 2016-05-31 18:09, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>>> "Small" in this case is more than 10 times the size of NEMA...
>> 
>>  Sorry, I'm joining this conversation late, but has anybody brought up JOVE?  It's a pretty good Emacs clone and it runs on 2.11bsd.  If it can run under BSD on a PDP11, it ought to be able to run under RSX!! :-)
> 
> Welcome to the party.
> Yes, Jove was one of the first things I looked at, since I do use it under 2BSD. However, porting that thing turned out to be hairier than a monkey. It intentionally avoids using the C standard I/O library, with the motivation that they wanted it to be portable. And they have conditionals all over the code. Unfortunately, not based on features or functionality available, but on OS. So you have lots of #ifdef msdos, and whatnot, and if you have one function or behavior like msdos in one place, you need to go in the code and add your conditionals there too, as you obviously do not want to claim that you are msdos, since that would pull in all the other msdos-specific parts as well, which you probably do *not* want. :-)
> 
> And it is very Unix-centric, even if people have managed to port it elsewhere.
> 
> 	Johnny

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