I have heard of a number of people using Emacs as a POVRay editor. I
have searched far and wide (actually I just tried alta-vista a few
times) and have not been able to find any information on obtaining it.
As I understand it, there is a windows version, I have hadf even less
luck finding any information on this.

Where can I find it? Is it free?

Any help would be appreciated.

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Chris Maryan wrote:

> I have heard of a number of people using Emacs as a POVRay editor. I
> have searched far and wide (actually I just tried alta-vista a few
> times) and have not been able to find any information on obtaining it.
> As I understand it, there is a windows version, I have hadf even less
> luck finding any information on this.
>
> Where can I find it? Is it free?

    You can find GNU emacs at the GNU home-site (http://www.gnu.org);
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html gives information about it,
including a link to their software page, which links to a list of FTP sites; I
believe that ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/ntemacs/latest/i386/ has the
latest version of the NT port of GNU emacs, or it did when I downloaded the NT
version that I have.
    On top of getting emacs, itself, there is a 'pov-mode.el' file, which is an
emacs-lisp module to make emacs better-understand POV-code (by itself, emacs
/doesn't/ understand it, though you might use cc-mode, which is for editing C,
C++, Java, and other C-like languages);
    I've found that the NT port of emacs doesn't function quite as well as the
Unix version, largely due to NT problems (no .emacs file in the user's
home-directory, because NT won't let you create a '.emacs' file except from the
command-line, and because emacs doesn't recognise NT's user-home setup; can't
telnet through NTemacs, because the 'telnet' included with NT wants its own
window; and other things).

    GNU emacs is, like all GNU stuff, truly free--it is /liberated/, as they
say; it's not just 'free of charge', but you can get the source, hack on it,
redistribute it.... You just aren't allowed to make it /not free/.

                -Rozzin.

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Ok, I found it, thanks.
Now can someone tell me if the win NT version works under windows 95?

Thanks for the help.
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Rozzin wrote:
> 
> Chris Maryan wrote:
...
> 
...
>     I've found that the NT port of emacs doesn't function quite as well as the
> Unix version, largely due to NT problems (no .emacs file in the user's
> home-directory, because NT won't let you create a '.emacs' file except from the
> command-line, and because emacs doesn't recognise NT's user-home setup; can't
> telnet through NTemacs, because the 'telnet' included with NT wants its own
> window; and other things).

I have to use Win95 at work for certain development tools, but I manage
pretty
well with the NT port of emacs (which runs fine under Win95) and TCSH
for
a shell.

The .emacs file exists but is named "_emacs" and should be placed under
your 
$HOME directory or "C:/" if you don't have $HOME defined.

>     GNU emacs is, like all GNU stuff, truly free--it is /liberated/, as they
> say; it's not just 'free of charge', but you can get the source, hack on it,
> redistribute it.... You just aren't allowed to make it /not free/.

Indeed.  "Freed" software is making quite an impact in the Real World
lately, too.

Cheers,
-Jamie
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