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Date:      Wed, 05 Jun 2024 17:19:00 +0200
From:      Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Request to revive a port?
Message-ID:  <a5jz-fme3-wny@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <202406050359.VAA26271@mail.lariat.net> (Brett Glass's message of "Tue, 04 Jun 2024 21:59:30 -0600")
References:  <202406050359.VAA26271@mail.lariat.net>

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Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> writes:

> For many years, I've been installing a simple EMACS-like editor,
> rather than the bloated (and GPLed) GNU EMACS, on FreeBSD systems I
> create. It's extremely handy for those of us who, for decades, have
> been used to the EMACS keystrokes and commands. But between FreeBSD
> 14.0 and 14.1, it seems to have dropped out of the port and package
> collections. It's very simple and stable code, so while it generates a
> few compiler warnings under the latest CLANG (which could be easily
> fixed; they mainly have to do with function prototypes) it still does
> compile and run perfectly. How can I request that it be reinstated?

May I suggest to switch to editors/mg. It has more permissive license,
/rescue version (mg-static flavor) and actively maintained on OpenBSD.

Both jove and mg lack syntax highlighting, Lisp in startup scripts and
Unicode support. However, jove supports lisp-mode unlike mg.



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