Re: Request to revive a port?

Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> writes:

> For many years, I've been installing a simple EMACS-like editor,
> rather than the bloated (and GPLed) GNU EMACS, on FreeBSD systems I
> create. It's extremely handy for those of us who, for decades, have
> been used to the EMACS keystrokes and commands. But between FreeBSD
> 14.0 and 14.1, it seems to have dropped out of the port and package
> collections. It's very simple and stable code, so while it generates a
> few compiler warnings under the latest CLANG (which could be easily
> fixed; they mainly have to do with function prototypes) it still does
> compile and run perfectly. How can I request that it be reinstated?

May I suggest to switch to editors/mg. It has more permissive license,
/rescue version (mg-static flavor) and actively maintained on OpenBSD.

Both jove and mg lack syntax highlighting, Lisp in startup scripts and
Unicode support. However, jove supports lisp-mode unlike mg.