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digitalmars.D - microEmacs (med) Win64 port

reply dd <dd dax.moe> writes:
Hi all,

Since I was curious, I recently ported [Walter's 
med](https://github.com/DigitalMars/med) to [the Win64 
platform](https://github.com/dd86k/med64) and released 
v1.1.0-win64.

This discards the need for the external library requirement (in 
disp.d), since this adds function bodies, so this is the only 
reason I didn't make a PR (but, I could if wanted).

Interesting bit of history kept up to date?

Didn't feel like wasting a thread in Announce.

(Also cursed me for hitting Discord draft instead of Send)
Aug 17 2023
parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 8/17/2023 9:17 AM, dd wrote:

 Since I was curious, I recently ported [Walter's 
 med](https://github.com/DigitalMars/med) to [the Win64 
 platform](https://github.com/dd86k/med64) and released v1.1.0-win64.
 
 This discards the need for the external library requirement (in disp.d), since 
 this adds function bodies, so this is the only reason I didn't make a PR (but,
I 
 could if wanted).
 
 Interesting bit of history kept up to date?


Med hearkens back to an era of simple, fast editors. It's fun just to read the 
code. (I didn't write most of it, it floated around NNTP in the 80's and I 
snagged a copy. Many of my colleagues used it.)

It's fun to see others enjoy it.

Sometimes I toy around with the idea of turning it into an IDE.
Aug 18 2023
parent dd <dd dax.moe> writes:
On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 16:51:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 Med hearkens back to an era of simple, fast editors. It's fun 
 just to read the code. (I didn't write most of it, it floated 
 around NNTP in the 80's and I snagged a copy. Many of my 
 colleagues used it.)

 It's fun to see others enjoy it.

 Sometimes I toy around with the idea of turning it into an IDE.


Oh, interesting!

I needed something light to help me write bigger git messages so
turning it into an IDE is less appealing to me (I'm more of a GNU
nano person, and the windows ports of those depend too much on 
some
things), and I do my heavy lifting in vscodium/vscode.

I can still do a PR if interested.

I need to fix the odd right Alt detection since I'm using a fr-ca
keyboard layout. Change the colors a bit too...
Aug 18 2023