Re: [howto] Kernel hacker's guide to git, updated

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sep 30, 2005, 02:36 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0509291918530.3378@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vwtkzb9qo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 
> Wouldn't underneath pub/scm/ be more appropriate and gitweb
> friendly?

Well, I don't actually have write permissions to anything there except for udner the kernel tree. Also, I suspect there aren't all that many uemacs users out there, and anybody who isn't already a uemacs user probably shouldn't pick it up.

I don't think it has gotten any real development for the last ten years, and while it was arguably the best editor twenty years ago (not a lot of competition - what else worked on DOS, VMS and UNIX without being crazy and modal?) it's definitely showing its age.

So since I already had a uemacs subdirectory, I just put the git archive there too.

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> Hmph.  I vaguely recall in my distant past when I was still in
> school, I did my own Japanization of microEmacs.  I wonder if
> yours share the same root -- I do not have the source of my
> version anymore so I have no way checking which ancient version
> I mucked with.

It's based on 3.9e, with some fixes by Petri Kutvonen at Helsinki University. With various (slight) modernizations by yours truly (eg posix termios support rather than the old "termio" stuff).

It _shouldn't_ be that hard to teach it about UTF-8, but every time I look at it I realize that there is a lot of stuff that should be improved. Converting it to K&R, getting rid of the things that made sense in the 80's but haven't made sense in ten years, re-indenting it (right now it's a strange mix of indentation styles)..

And if you open a binary file with it, it will literally spew binary characters to the tty, and can seriously confuse it due to the control chars. Or if you have a really long line, it can SIGSEGV on you. Cute.

But dammit, I'm not giving it up.

			Linus