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From: John Tobey <
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Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs::Lisp 0.3 and emacs-20.2 patch
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Date: 11 Feb 1998 22:50:14 GMT
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File: emacs-20.2-perlmacs-0.3.readme
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####### THIS IS ALPHA SOFTWARE. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! #######
####### EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS CODE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE!!! #######
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WHAT
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$CPAN/authors/id/JTOBEY/emacs-20.2-perlmacs-0.3.pl.gz, a patch for GNU
Emacs 20.2 to embed Perl 5.004. Includes module "Emacs::Lisp".
WHY
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The goal is to allow Emacs modules and customization code to be
written in Perl, as well as Emacs Lisp. As of this ALPHA version, not
all features are implemented, documentation is incomplete, and
examples are lacking.
The task at hand is to discuss possible uses and interface details.
Anyone want to set up a mailing list or newsgroup? Please email me if
you would like to do this.
HOW
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You must first install PERL VERSION 5.004. Although I have never
tried it with 5.003 or 5.0045+, I doubt that it would work and am not
ready to support these.
Your perl must have working ExtUtils::Embed and ExtUtils::MakeMaker
capabilities. If not, the configure script will exclude Perl support,
and you will have essentially standard GNU Emacs.
Retrieve and untar the Emacs distribution; for example:
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/emacs-20.2.tar.gz
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/gnu/emacs-20.2.tar.gz
Retrieve the patch (see above). Then do
cd emacs-20.2
gzip -dc ../emacs-20.2-perlmacs-0.3.pl.gz |perl
./configure
make
and, if you're the adventurous type,
make install
Most of the documentation is in perl/Emacs-Lisp/Lisp.pm and should be
accessible after installation via
perldoc Emacs::Lisp
CAVEAT
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This is not meant to be tried on anything other than Unix-like
systems. However, if you get it to work on non-unix, I would be
delighted to hear about it!
Cheers,
John
[email protected]
