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diff --git a/community/mg/README b/community/mg/README deleted file mode 100644 index cf2d78917..000000000 --- a/community/mg/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,74 +0,0 @@ -[This is an edited version of the original mg README, updated slightly to -reflect changes in the last 20 years.] - - -Mg (mg) is a Public Domain EMACS style editor. It is "broadly" -compatible with GNU Emacs, the latest creation of Richard M. -Stallman, Chief GNUisance and inventor of Emacs. GNU Emacs (and other -portions of GNU as they are released) are essentially free, (there are -handling charges for obtaining it) and so is Mg. You may never have -to learn another editor. (But probably will, at least long enough to -port Mg...) Mg was formerly named MicroGnuEmacs, the name change was -done at the request of Richard Stallman. - -Mg is not associated with the GNU project, and most of it does not -have the copyright restrictions present in GNU Emacs. (However, some -of the system dependent modules and the regular expression module do -have copyright notices. Look at the source code for exact -copyright restrictions.) The Mg authors individually may or may not -agree with the opinions expressed by Richard Stallman in "The GNU -Manifesto". - -This program is intended to be a small, fast, and portable editor for -people who can't (or don't want to) run real Emacs for one reason -or another. It is compatible with GNU because there shouldn't be -any reason to learn more than one Emacs flavor. - - -Beyond the work of Dave Conroy, author of the original public domain -v30, the current version contains the work of: - - blarson@ecla.usc.edu Bob Larson - mic@emx.utexas.edu Mic Kaczmarczik - mwm@violet.berkeley.edu Mike Meyer - sandra@cs.utah.edu Sandra Loosemore - mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu Michael Portuesi - RCKG01M@CALSTATE.BITNET Stephen Walton - hakanson@mist.cs.orst.edu Marion Hakanson - -People who have worked on previous versions of Mg: - - rtech!daveb@sun.com Dave Brower - -Currently maintained in the OpenBSD src tree, with contributions from -many others. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - -Known limitations: - -Recursive bindings may cause help and key rebinding code to go into -an infinite loop, aborting with a stack overflow. - -Overwrite mode does not work in macros. (Characters are inserted -rather than overwriting.) - -Dired mode has some problems: Rename does not update the buffer. -Doing a dired again will update the buffer (whether it needs it or -not) and will lose any marks for deletion. .. and . are not -recognized as special cases. - -On systems with 16 bit integers, the kill buffer cannot exceed 32767 -bytes. - - - -New implementation oddities: - -insert and define-key are new commands corresponding to the mocklisp -functions in Gnu Emacs. (Mg does not have non-command functions.) -(Mg's insert will only insert one string.) - -The display wrap code does not work at all like that of GNU emacs. - - |