Subject: Return of Jed... (non-movie)

From: Yolin H u a n g <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 17:52:06 EDT

If not yet noticed, there is an editor under development, called jed
(currently version 0.9).  Kind of a subset of Emacs, but it has been
designed to be 8bit-aware from ground up.  The current Unix version works
well with Han text, whether in CXterm or remote thru modem (as I mentioned
last year).  It doesn't have all the functions of the Emacs genre
(CEmacs, MuLE); however, good that it doesn't take up too much space
(somewhat closer to jove), while it has many of the basic text processing
functions, and programmable using S-Lang.
  My bias is that it is more user-friendly than vi genre: patched vi
(celvis, cvi).

  It also runs on VMS, PC. (Having enough goodies, plus several Grand
Dragons in the reinforcement rank, Mac users probably don't want to
bother.)

  Jed may be obtained via anonymous ftp from amy.tch.harvard.edu in the
pub/jed directory. (overseas sites might want to make a copy to reduce
network traffic).  Jed is distributed in three forms:

1.  jed090.tar.Z      unix distribution
2.  jed090.zip        MSDOS distribution with jed.exe
3.  jed090.*_of_*     multi-part VMS share

  May I suggest that certain questions be discussed in CCNet
initially, then good suggestions can be funneled to the author to be
added.  Such that the author won't be bugged down by a swarm of simple
questions.
  (BTW, same site under pub/most, there is an 8bit-aware browser "most"
(>more))

_
Yolin

(daydream:) ... since there are a few (say maybe 5) thousands Han text
enthusiasts, if everyone type in a page per month from the
Classics/Sutra/..., following the steps of Grand Masters Ned Walsh, John
Jenkins, David Steelman, there will be 60K pages typed up per year,
whether GB or Big5.  and in a year or two, they can all be mapped over to
Unicode, and furthered debugged.  after that, audio-visual effects added,
and put on multimedia CD's.  ... how many years to type in the "Complete
Collectanea from the Four Imperial Chambers"?  one, two, three, four,
five, ...  (counting fingers and toes) ...

(murmur:) then, one day, adult and kids alike would gather around the
picnic table and read those mail-ordered CD's on screen, e.g. that
"Aggrandized Tales from the Three Kingdoms".  amid those exciting visual
displays, a dark-faced figure will shout aloud in an accent not really
intelligible to the modern scientific ears ...