From: JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: beginner questions
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 08:39:45 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l264kh$knt$1@reader1.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87siwt12nd.fsf@informatimago.com
Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
> JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> writes:
>
>> Yeah, I peeked at your informatimago.com homepage, and saw all
>> your gpl'ed emacs tools. The asm7090 seemed especially unusual.
>> I started with keypunches (and that's 026's), and ran stuff
>> on the 7040 in CCNY's EE dept a long (long,...) time ago.
>> But the creation date on your pjb-asm7090.el is 2005-06-04.
>> Somebody still emulating that somewhere?
>
> Indeed.
Thanks, Pascal, that's remarkable...
> The sources of LISP 1.5 written in 7090 assembler are
> available, and there's an emulator, so as a week end project when time
> permits, (unfortunately not since a few years, given the amount of
> competiting interests :-/), we may have fun with it.
> http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2012/08/29/590/
> http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LispOnePointFive
> http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/
> You may perform further searches with:
> http://www.masswerk.at/google60/
> ;-)
>
> But on the other hand, Common Lisp let you run LISP 1.5 programs almost
> unchanged, with minimal supporting code:
> http://informatimago.com/develop/lisp/com/informatimago/
> small-cl-pgms/wang.html
> For more nostalgia,
..."Nostalgia isn't what it used to be." -- Peter De Vries
> you may try pjb-computer-paper.el:
> M-x set-foreground-color RET black RET M-x computer-paper RET
> C-u M-x computer-paper RET will ask for the modulo (number of colors)
> and block (group of lines) with which to set the background lines.
Two more questions, please. First (as also mentioned in post
further down this thread), when I earlier said that fundamental-mode
stops parentheses matching, I'd only actually checked <stuff>.
Unfortunately, it still matches (stuff), [stuff], {stuff}.
Any way to turn that all off?
Secondly, I figured I could easily get that fundamental-mode, as
well as other initializations, into .emacs by myself with a little
googling. But I tried all of (separately and together)
; -*- mode: Fundamental;-*-
(setq-default major-mode 'fundamental-mode)
(setq major-mode 'fundamental-mode)
(fundamental-mode)
and nothing works. Still comes up in its own default mode.
And just to be sure, I put some gobbledy-gook into .emacs
and ran it with --debug-init, and it brought up a screen
with the expected "Error: you're a moron" message
(I'm already plenty familiar with that message:).
So it's indeed reading the file. I must be writing it wrong.
What's the right way? Thanks again,
--
John Forkosh ( mailto: j@f.com where j=john and f=forkosh )
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-28 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-25 7:55 beginner questions JohnF
2013-09-25 9:26 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-25 11:18 ` JohnF
2013-09-25 12:55 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-28 8:39 ` JohnF [this message]
2013-09-28 15:30 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-28 17:11 ` Rustom Mody
2013-09-28 18:07 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-29 3:45 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-28 22:32 ` Kai Grossjohann
2013-09-29 8:30 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-29 7:27 ` JohnF
2013-09-29 13:45 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-30 8:46 ` JohnF
2013-09-26 2:22 ` Jude DaShiell
2013-09-25 17:47 ` Doug Lewan
[not found] ` <mailman.2869.1380131281.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-26 7:44 ` JohnF
2013-09-26 17:52 ` Ken Goldman
[not found] ` <mailman.2943.1380217948.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-27 2:37 ` Rustom Mody
2013-09-28 8:16 ` JohnF
2013-09-28 18:18 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.3090.1380392333.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-29 7:58 ` JohnF
2013-10-01 17:27 ` Rustom Mody
2013-10-01 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-01 20:02 ` Joost Kremers
2013-10-02 0:56 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.3227.1380675393.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-02 14:34 ` Rustom Mody
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