dstowell@ddsw1.MCS.COM (David M. Stowell) (06/26/91)
I just found that we have MicroEMACS on this system, but no documentation available. I'm beginning to weary of vi, so I'd like to test this out. Where can I get good basic documentation for emacs, either by purchase or e-mail? Thanks tons! |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | David M. Stowell | | Dafydd y Gigfran ap Morgan o Deheubarth | | Province of Tree-Girt-Sea, Midrealm | | | |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | UUCP: uunet!ddsw1!dstowell | (quote in progress...) | | Internet: dstowell@ddsw1.mcs.com | | | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | David M. Stowell | | Dafydd y Gigfran ap Morgan o Deheubarth | | Province of Tree-Girt-Sea, Midrealm |
ff013@unocss.unomaha.edu (ff013) (06/28/91)
From article <1991Jun25.172240.11633@ddsw1.MCS.COM>, by dstowell@ddsw1.MCS.COM (David M. Stowell): > I just found that we have MicroEMACS on this system, but no documentation > available. I'm beginning to weary of vi, so I'd like to test this out. > > Where can I get good basic documentation for emacs, either by purchase or > e-mail? Thanks tons! [gargantuan signature deleted] isn't E-Mail, but ftp to wuarchive.wustl.edu. /mirrors/msdos/memacs has the source code, docs, etc. It depends on which version you are running, but for 3.10 the docs are in a file named ue310doc.(zip | arc | zoo). If all else fails, send me a note stating the version and I will try to find them to mail to you. (If you don't have 3.10 or better you will want it.) There is quite a bit of basic information available online also: (M- indicates META, better known as Escape, so for example M-A means to press the ESCAPE key, then A. ^ indicates control, so ^X? means to hold the control key down while pressing X, then type a "?") M-A apropos - enter a string, it will show all commands containing that string and their key-bindings ^X ? descibe-key - press a key (or key combination) and emacs will tell you its binding M-? help - shows the most commonly used bindings (if the help file is online). The help file is "emacs.hlp" and can be printed for use as a quick-reference. To get a list of all functions and their bindings, press M-X (for execute-named-command) and then enter "descibe-bindings" (without the quotes of course). There is, of course, no substitute for the manual. Where are all the users of MicroEMACS? There must be quite a few, but there is rarely anything about it in this group. I have a minimal (by choice) knowledge of vi; I am impressed by gnu, but use MicroEMACS. I work on on SysV Unix and MS-DOS/Novell primarily, but also on BSD, Dynix, AIX, VAX/VMS, and an occasional MacIntosh. MicroEMACS is available on all these and works the same everywhere. There is no other editor that I am aware of that can make that claim. Also, I started using a similar emacs (MicroEMACS ?or? Unipress) under Version 7 Unix on a PDP/11 where the only choices were ed and emacs. Compared to ed or VMS' EDT (or just about anything except the GNU monster) it is fantastic! --Don Granaman alias phys014@zeus.unomaha.edu alias ff013@unocss.unomaha.edu -- Don Granaman vms: phys014@zeus.unomaha.edu unix: ff013@unocss.unomaha.edu (preferred, of course :-)