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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