From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: JohnF Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: beginner questions Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 08:39:45 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: References: <87eh8d2qxi.fsf@informatimago.com> <87siwt12nd.fsf@informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380357615 3620 80.91.229.3 (28 Sep 2013 08:40:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 08:40:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 28 10:40:20 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VPq4Z-0000iw-V1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 10:40:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40151 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPq4Z-0000at-GM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 04:40:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 55 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1380357585 21245 166.84.1.3 (28 Sep 2013 08:39:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 08:39:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/2.0.0-20110823 ("Ardenistiel") (UNIX) (NetBSD/5.1.2 (i386)) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201426 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93695 Archived-At: Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > JohnF 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 . 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 )