[Info-vax] Editors, was: Re: VT keyboard replacement

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On 11/10/21 1:18 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 11/9/2021 3:09 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> And, anyway, real emacs has been available on VMS pretty much from the
>> beginning.
> 
> I don't think beginning is the problem more the end.
> 
> As far as I can see then for GNU Emacs then:
> - current version is 27
> - last version supposed to support VMS was 22
> - supposedly version 21 was actually ported to VMS
> - Freeware CD seems to have version 19
> 
> Arne
> 
Emacs version 21.2 is available for VMS on VAX, Alpha and IA64. At least
one of the freeware CDs has the sources for this version.

I have local copies of the sources, which I used to build these
versions. I made the sources available here on c.o.v. They contain a few
minor changes/fixes. I  didn't try to create a version for x86. As far
as I remember, there is a tool generated during the build to be used in
the build and that does not work out of the box in a cross build
environment. I expect that the sources used to build the Alpha version
will work for x86 as well. If I have time ...