Wow, reading this group is truly like going back in time. I used to work at Digital and jump around to various editing news groups there. I can very...
Brian W. Masinick
masinick@...
Jun 23, 2001 7:53 pm
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"The Mas" wrote ... As long as we're reminiscing... My brother (Jeff) and I worked in the "terminals and printers" groups at Digital back in the '80's and had...
Roy Lomicka
royf@...
Jun 24, 2001 12:44 am
88
Roy, I worked during the middle 1990s with Mark DeVries when we worked in the Digital UNIX group. Mark had previously worked in one of the peripherals groups,...
masinick@...
Jun 24, 2001 4:36 pm
89
Roy, I just checked the MLisp code that ships with the V7. Emacs. There are five modules with Jeff's name on them from 1984 through 1988 including, incsearch,...
Barry Scott
barry@...
Jun 25, 2001 10:50 pm
90
Hi Brian, Then, of course, who could ever forget BArry Scott, especially with the BArry! I'll almost learned to get my finger off the shift key for the A these...
Barry Scott
barry@...
Jun 25, 2001 10:58 pm
91
Hello world, I too used BArry's emacs at Digital from about 1984-1992 before moving to Unix and GNU emacs. I might be interested in barrysemacs if there were...
Edward Arthur
eda@...
Jul 2, 2001 9:17 pm
92
My understanding is that there are versions of Barry's Emacs for a couple pof different platforms. I know for a fact that there are versions for Windows and...
masinick@...
Jul 4, 2001 3:40 pm
93
I actively work on Barry's Emacs for FreeBSD and Linux. I'll update the version soon to match the windows release. I don;t have access to a Solaris machine to...
Barry Scott
barry@...
Jul 12, 2001 11:25 pm
94
I still every now and then get baffled by pattern searchs ala re-search-forward. I resurrected a copy of a note from years ago from the notes file. Could you...
Gim Hom
g_hom@...
Jul 31, 2001 1:43 pm
95
Barry Scott
barry.alan.scott@...
Aug 29, 2001 10:29 pm
96
get two buffers displayed put the text cursor in the bottom window now move the mouse to the top window vertical scroll bar and drag the square thingy. what...
jack_horsfield@...
Aug 30, 2001 11:17 am
97
get three windows put the text cursor in the top window, somewhere in the text. now drag the second window's mode line upwards until the window is deleted. ...
jack_horsfield@...
Aug 30, 2001 11:21 am
98
well, it's perhaps not the right thing to do, but nargs on the command line crashes emacs. jack There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full...
jack_horsfield@...
Oct 5, 2001 1:13 pm
99
Also interactive will crash emacs. Someone at work showed me this problem a couple of days ago. Its already fixed in the source and will be in the next kit ...
Barry Scott
barry.alan.scott@...
Oct 6, 2001 1:42 pm
100
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the barrysemacs group. File :...
barrysemacs@yahoogrou...
Oct 7, 2001 7:13 pm
101
i like the new wrapping algorithm. the text is much more readable. but, having used it for a while, there are often occasions when i need to know the number of...
jack_horsfield@...
Oct 11, 2001 8:56 am
102
i keep running out of syntax colours... for example, i just decided to set up syntax colouring for .ini files, so i want to be able to set colours for...
I'd have to use a lot more memory to hold the buffers to add extra colours. Currently I use one byte of syntax info for each char in the buffer. I could add...
I'll have a look to see how hard that is to do. The other ralated request I've had is to add visual feedback that a newline has been selected. Barry...
um. well, with an eye to the past, one part of me says 'that's a lot'. on the other hand, the eye looking to the future says 'so what?'. if i understand...
Turns out that I'm actually using 4 bytes of syntax per char buffer... I have dorment code to add outlining and some other features to the syntax system. I...
As I mentioned in the last message I've already used 5 bytes/char. If you do have to read very big files into emacs you can reduce this to 1 byte/char. set...
aargghh!!! you mean i've been suffering all that extra overhead and never knew it :) at least when microshaft bloat a program you know all about it cos the...
to cope with all the syntax strings :) jack If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure ... From: Barry Scott [mailto:barry.alan.scott@...] Sent:...
What problem are you trying to solve that needs more then 3 types of string and 3 types of comment? C++, for example, has 2 comment types and 2 string types. ...
some misunderstanding... 3 string + 3 comment is fine and will solve all my problems. jack ... From: Barry Scott [mailto:barry.alan.scott@...] Sent:...
Kits for Windows, FreeBSD and Linux are on yahoo and www.barrys- emacs.org I'm expecting that 160 with any problems fixed that testing uncover will replace 118...
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