[GAP Forum] Support for gap in emacs

[Max Horn]

Hi Mathieu,

> On 28. Oct 2020, at 10:52, Mathieu Dutour <mathieu.dutour at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> This code should be the one on the GAP web page.

In 2017, we were contacted by an FSF lawyer informing us that our distribution of an emacs mode was in violation of the GPL (specifically, the GPL 3, which was absurd already back then given that the code predated the GPL 3 by many years). In any case, we ended up removing all traces of that code. As a consequence of this unpleasant experience, we have no intention of changing that, even if now there might be versions of the emacs integration which the FSF deems acceptable.

However, I've posted a pull request to update the website with the new location of the GAP mode which Dima supplied; see <https://github.com/gap-system/GapWWW/pull/205>.

Regards
Max

> 
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 09:08, Dima Pasechnik <dima.pasechnik at cs.ox.ac.uk>
> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 28 October 2020 07:36:02 GMT, Mathieu Dutour <mathieu.dutour at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> I would like to have an environment in emacs that fits nicely
>>> with the GAP code and its syntactic peculiarities.
>>> 
>>> This should normally not be a problem, but unfortunately it
>>> does not appear to be available.
>> 
>> A hopefully up to date package is distributed via Melpa:
>> 
>> https://melpa.org/#/gap-mode
>> 
>> HTH
>> Dima
>>> 
>>> On https://www.gap-system.org/Faq/faq.html there are two pointers
>>> for this emacs package:
>>> 
>>> 1) In
>>> https://www.gap-system.org/Manuals/doc/ref/chap6.html#X7B67FF1E87FE67D1
>>> it is said that the data is in the "etc" directory available in
>>> releases.
>>> Unfortunately for emacs there is only one README file that contains
>>> a pointer:
>>> ftp://ftp.gap-system.org/pub/gap/gap44/deposit/external/emacs/
>>> which is now dead.
>>> 
>>> 2) In https://www.gap-system.org/Packages/Contrib/emacs.html
>>> there is a pointer to the https://bitbucket.org/gvol/gap-mode but it is
>>> also
>>> a dead link.
>>> 
>>> Could the link be cleaned up? Does there exist a useful file for
>>> editing
>>> gap files under emacs?
>>> 
>>> Thank you very much in advance.
>>> 
>>> Mathieu
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>> 
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>> 
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