[Simh] Emacs-clone for RSX?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-05-31 19:22, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>> So you have lots of #ifdef msdos, and whatnot, ...
>
>   You could always just remove all the conditionals and create an RSX only fork.  Some people might say that's the Wrong Thing To Do, but I prefer to be less judgmental and simply observe that it might be "less than optimal".  Still useful, however.

Yeah. I started down that path, but eventually got tired trying to 
figure out what goes where, and how. And I still had the problem to just 
clean out all the very entrenched Unix-isms it has. In the end I 
realized that it will go way faster to just implement something on my 
own from scratch.

>   Personally I'd really like to see an Emacs for RSX.  I'm perfectly happy with EDT when a VTxxx terminal is available, but often it is not, especially when using simh.  VTxxx emulation on a PC doesn't solve the problem since the keypad layout is just not quite the same, and my right hand was hardwired with the EDT key bindings many, many years ago.  It can't be changed anymore :-)

Yes, I have that same problem. A PC keyboard sortof works, but it's not 
ideal. And my fingers are actually even more wired for Emacs to start with.

	Johnny