Joachim WibergProud to announce another release of my little text editor, kg, now at v1.1.0
Read more about it on my blog https://troglobit.com/post/2026-05-26-long-time-no-blog/
#unicode #microemacs #emacs #terminal #console #embedded #linux
Tommi NieminenEnnen QEditiä minulla muuten oli Hesulien yliopistossa muunneltu #MicroEMACS, jota joidenkin vahvistamattomien epämääräisten huhujen mukaan #LinusTorvalds yhä käyttäisi.
Over the past months I've been creating a #MicroEmacs look-alike called kg, clearly flirting with Mg, and today I've released v1.0.0! 🎉 Pick it up at https://github.com/troglobit/kg
I'm curious to hear what people think, there's a pre-built .deb file for users of #Debian #Ubuntu #LinuxMint, and yes for all the #Arch people there's a PKGBUILD file contributed early on by @bodil 😊
Jochie 👨🏻💻🏳️🌈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
Thomas Fricke (he/his)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."
Yang 
Tor Lillqvist@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.)
𝚛𝚊𝚝@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?
LdBethBtw 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
Leif SamuelssonVery 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.
