Mastodawn

Digging through some cruft/files today and... feeling 👴 now

.../UEMACS$ ls -al | sed 's/userid//g'
total 548
-rw-r--r-- 1 68768 Mar 10 1992 UE311ANS.ARJ
-rw-r--r-- 1 84480 Mar 10 1992 UE311C.ARJ
-rw-r--r-- 1 49892 Mar 10 1992 UE311CMD.ARJ
-rw-r--r-- 1 68058 Mar 10 1992 UE311DOC.ARJ
-rw-r--r-- 1 61959 Mar 10 1992 UE311H.ARJ
-rw-r--r-- 1 69643 Mar 10 1992 UE311IBM.ARJ
-rw-r--r-- 1 16257 Mar 10 1992 UE311MAK.ARJ
-rw-r--r-- 1 97038 Mar 10 1992 UE311PS.ARJ

#Emacs #MicroEmacs

Thomas Fricke (he/his)Jan 21

Tell me how old you are without using a number

https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs 🤩

Microemacs! Linus writes

"This is a bad editor. Really. Unless you have used it since the 1980s, and have untrainable fingers, you should absolutely walk away and never look back. ...

So this is a simplistic editor, written for an age when you had 64kB limits and 300 or 1200 baud terminals were common. It was not a better age, and this is not a better editor."

Tor Lillqvist Apr 14, 2025

@jukkan Oh, #MicroEmacs. I think I ported that myself to the obscure HP1000 A-series minicomputer (running a very non-Unix OS called RTE-A) back in the 80s. (Or at least improved it a lot if it had already been ported.)

I was used to real #Emacs at university and wanted something similar at work, too. (The Emacs I learnt to use was the OG one, written in TECO, on the PDP-10 (DEC-20). GNU Emacs did not yet exist then.)

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𝚛𝚊𝚝 Feb 12, 2025

@northernlights My peak productivity was with #edt/ #ked on #vt102. From there #ex/ #vi felt like a step down and so #vim/ #neovim remains a path never to be taken. Ported my own #microemacs around for some time. These days will use #pico/ #nano for quick things, #emacs otherwise or because #slime. Had #brief (😜 ) run-in with #teco, memory of which is buried, because trauma, granting only a bonus giggle reading "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal". Didn't #notepad win the #editor war in the end?

LdBeth Aug 20, 2024

Btw I just updated the jasspa #microemacs so it builds as a 32bit app using much recent MSVC, and it picks up the changes made after the last binary release in 2009

https://github.com/ipstone/microemacs/compare/master...LdBeth:microemacs:master

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Jasspa's microemacs. Contribute to ipstone/microemacs development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Leif Samuelsson Jul 30, 2024

@ldbeth

Very nice to hear that #MicroEmacs is still around. I wish that would have happened to my simple #Scame editor that I wrote in 1980 when I couldn't stand the ed/em/ex/vi family of editors.

https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/scame

One thing I can boast about is that it was damned quick on the Vax11/70 with 12 student terminals.

GitHub - larsbrinkhoff/scame: TECO EMACS clone for Unix

TECO EMACS clone for Unix. Contribute to larsbrinkhoff/scame development by creating an account on GitHub.

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LdBeth Jul 30, 2024

GNU #Emacs boot time is terribly long on Windose even with anti-virus scan disabled and minimal init.el, I remembered Jasspa #MicroEmacs and despite last update was in 2009 it still works well on Windose 11. Still for better Unicode support GNU Emacs is the way to go but the builtin mini games from microemacs is extremely fun, my favorite is mahjongg http://www.jasspa.com

MicroEmacs JASSPA Distribution

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Thomas Cherryhomes Jul 19, 2024

Words can not express how transformative #MicroEmacs was to the #CommodoreAmiga development community.

In just 9 short months after the first version was ported by Dave Conroy, it had been improved more than a dozen times, culminating in Andy Finkel's version that showed up on the Amiga Toolkit disk in early 1986.