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microEmacs (med) Win64 port
Aug 17, 2023
dd
Aug 18, 2023
Walter Bright
Aug 18, 2023
dd
August 17, 2023

Hi all,

Since I was curious, I recently ported Walter's med to the Win64 platform 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)

August 18, 2023
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.
August 18, 2023
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...