MicroEmacs was based on MINT ("MINT Is Not Trac"). TRAC is a language
based entirely on macroprocessing, with an implementation written in Perl
at <http://www.catb.org/retro/trac.shar.gz>. But there were a lot of other
differences unrelated to Elisp vs. MINT.
On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 12:56 PM Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com>
wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 12:01:27PM +0100, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote:
> > Hi james
> >
> > * I noticed several people at Racketcon using, not Aquamacs, but another
> > GUI version of Emacs. Is there any particular reason to pick one of
> these
> > over another?*
> >
> > Maybe spacemacs? (I don’t use spacEmacs so I’m only guessing based on the
> > survey response)
>
> No idea. I haven't even heard of those.
>
> I use emacs for everything except Racket.
>
> In my life, I've used emacs, zemacs, and microemacs.
>
> Of these three, microemaacs was the only independent implementation,
> based on an language that wasn't a Lisp derivative. (I think a
> byte-coded or threaded-coded stack language, but that was a long
> time ago.
>
> -- hendrik
>
> >
> > S.
> >
> > On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 21:20, James Platt <j...@biomantica.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On Feb 26, 2020, at 10:44 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote:
> > >
> > > > At 62 response, sadly the histogram doesn't show how many people use
> two
> > > or even three editors.
> > > > https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-GBD6J7ST7/
> > >
> > > I am in transition between DrRacket and Emacs so I checked both of
> those
> > > two, myself. That was after you had posted your Venn diagram. I was
> > > mostly using DrRacket before but now I am mostly using Emacs. I still
> like
> > > the features in DrRacket for tracing definitions and use it for that.
> > > Also, I have two monitors and Gnu Emacs in the terminal does fine for
> > > splitting the screen on one monitor but not so well across two
> monitors.
> > > So, on the occasions where I want another file open on my second
> monitor, I
> > > have been using Emacs on the main monitor but DrRacket on the second.
> I
> > > probably could use Emacs on multiple monitors if I used one of the Mac
> > > specific GUI versions. I noticed several people at Racketcon using,
> not
> > > Aquamacs, but another GUI version of Emacs. Is there any particular
> reason
> > > to pick one of these over another?
> > >
> > > I also have set up a Racket development environment in Termux on my
> > > Android tablet. Since there is no version of DrRacket for Android, I
> am
> > > exclusively using Emacs there. Having said that, I haven't actually
> done
> > > any more yet than test it to see that it works.
> > >
> > >
> > > James
> > >
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