cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) (09/16/89)
As I mentioned previously in this group I've been hacking on the version of
MicroEMACS 3.10 that was posted a while ago. The changes I've implemented are
as follows :
- MicroEMACS now opens a custom, interlaced, screen for editing on.
It defaults to using the courier 13 font, but you can select any
font you wish with a command line switch. With courier 13 you get
30 rows of 90 characters.
(Commmand switch -fFONTNAME/size the default is -fcourier/13 )
- All keymaps are supported including "dead keys" for things like
umlat's and greek characters. To do this required dealing with
the ALT keys in a somewhat convaluted way.
The problem arises from the fact that EMACS would like to use
ALT like another control key but the Amiga uses ALT to get to
the "8-bit" characters in the font. My answer was to make one
of the ALT keys work as an EMACS alt, and the other to work as
the keyboard ALT. (left-Alt == EMACS, right-Alt == Amiga)
- Left-Amiga is a synonym for Meta- right Amiga is reserved for
menu short cuts, although it doesn't support menus yet.
- It also has a pretty decent file name completion feature which
I've made usable.
Anyway, I need beta testers. And after a month or so I'll send the sources
off to Dan and whomever else wants them. So if you want a copy, send me mail
and I'll send you three messages back that contain the uuencoded binary.
Note : If you don't know how to use microEMACS you will need the emacs.txt
and emacs.hlp files that were part of the original binaries distribution
on comp.binaries.amiga.
And another note, the colors used on the screen (there are 8 of them)
are my current favorites, but probably not yours. You can use the Palette
program to change them while you are running, (C-X ! Palette) but I'm not
sure how the palette emacs command is supposed to work in uEMACS so it isn't
implemented yet.
Things in the PIPE :
- AREXX support.
- Color Palette changes within emacs
- Faster screen updates
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--Chuck McManis
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