What is/was Energize?
David N Gray writes: The files in `lisp/energize’ are to enable Emacs to interface with the “Energize Programming System”, a C and C++ development environment, which was a product of Lucid, Inc. Tragically, Lucid went out of business in 1994, so although Energize is still a great system, if you don’t already have it, there isn’t any way to get it now. (Unless you happen to be in Japan; INS Engineering may still be selling it there. Tartan bought the rights to sell it in the rest of the world, but never did so.
The “Energize Programming System” was a C and C++ development environment sold by Lucid, Inc. It was the reason why Lucid Emacs, now XEmacs, was created in the first place. Unfortunately, Lucid went out of business in 1994. The rights to sell it in Japan were purchased by INS Engineering (which briefly employed Stig Hackvan aka Jonathan Stigelman to work on Japanese support for XEmacs, in late 1994 and early 1995) and Tartan bought the rights to sell it in the rest of the world. However, INS is not selling Energize at this point and may or may not have ever done so; Tartan certainly never did.
