Anthony Heading asks if he can use emacs instead of ved... The answer
is a little complicated.
(A) There -are- emacs emulators available for ved. Try help emacs,
help vedemacs. Since some use of VED is almost unavoidable, it is worth
compiling one of these in your init.p or vedinit.p file, so that you have
familiar cursor key bindings. Having become used to emacs on a trip to the
US in 1981, I find this minimal emulation quite adequate, but of course you
can't write emacs-lisp for it, and the command line processing is not the
same. (emacs' handling of commands is in my opinion superior to ved's, but
the difference is not so marked as to make me particularly unhappy.).
(B) There are sundry chunks of emacs lisp code to allow POPLOG to be run from
gnu emacs. Probably the most complete of these is that written by Gordon
Dakin of the University of Massachusetts, (dakin@cs.umass.edu). I believe that
this is in contrib by now - I can't check 'cos I didnt load contrib when I
installed this Poplog here. Gordon uses this code on a daily basis. There is
also a more limited interface by (I believe) Mr Caley.
Poplog differs from other systems that emacs has to deal with in that it
speaks several languages, and Gordon's code takes account of that. It
includes, or includes references to, other chunks of emacs-lisp code for
dealing with all the Poplog languages.
However, there is I believe no emacs interface to the online documentation
of Poplog - you can of course read the files if you can find them, and even
executed chunks of code.
Robin Popplestone.
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