EmACT - version of EMACS (a short for Editing MACroS)
Christian Jullien
Email: jullien -AT- eligis -DOT- com
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THE HISTORY OF EMACT
This product is an original development made to provide an
emacs-like editor on the PC for the purpose of writing Lisp code
with the same features found on other Lisp development systems. In
1985, with about 512 Ko of memory, it was obvious that Gosling, GNU
or other emacs written in Lisp were too big to run on M$-DOG. So I
decided to write my own editor that closely works like those I used
on VAX Unix at that time. I started with Conroy's MicroEMACS.
After a great amount of time, made essentially after hours, EmACT is
now a pretty good clone of GNU Emacs. It has all the features that
programmers enjoy, like parentheses matching, auto-indent for Lisp,
C, C++, compile mode, tags and even a Lisp interpreter which is not
however compatible with GNU MockLisp. It can be ported to all UN*X
systems (terminal and X-Window) and it runs of course on all Intel
based system in text or graphic mode (MSDOS, OS/2 Windows 3.x,
Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista and Windows 95/98/Me).
Why EmACT? In 1985 I was working for a company named ACT.
SOURCE INSTALL:
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prompt> sh ./configure # or ./configure --prefix=$HOME
prompt> make # make binaries and compile lisp code
prompt> make install # you must have be root
If it does not work or you're not on unix like system:
- With MSVC, compile EmACT using 'nmake nt-msc' at toplevel distribution.
- With other systems, go to src and use makefile.xxx for your own compiler.
- Put all *.lsp in /usr/local/emact directory
(or add EMACSLIB system variable).
- Edit startup.lsp to match your needs.
- Compile other tools from ./etc/ directory.
- Read the doc for more customizations.
Latest version should be in: http://www.eligis.com/emacs
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