[Info-vax] Lisp alternatives for Emacs [was Re: Python for x86?]

[Po Lu]

Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:

> My point was that if someone took the 28.2 source and
> put back all the #ifdef vms code from 21.2 then what would
> be missing? How much of the new stuff added would require
> new #ifdef vms code?
>
> I don't think I have played with GNU Emacs since VMS VAX
> days (early 90's) and I have no idea about what has been added
> to GNU Emacs the last few decades, but I am sort of guessing
> that the new stuff would be most "edit stuff" and not
> so much "system interface stuff". Of course I could
> be totally wrong.

Indeed.  The only major change is that compared to 21.1, Emacs now uses
much more of Gnulib to provide OS specific code.  Adding back the VMS
code should still be straightforward, but moving much of it into Gnulib
would be even better.