nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence) (10/18/88)
In article <13207@cisunx.UUCP> champ@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Patrick Champion) writes: > > Has anyone ever made a larger, better emacs than microemacs 3.9e for >the PC? I mean really, 93K is not that big as far as memory goes. I can't >see what all the fuss is about keeping things small. I wouldn't mind if >micro-emacs grew to 150K or so. Small programs run faster, especially on slow (4.77) PCs. A lot of people do use MicroEMACS on their older PC's and still expect good performance. You may get part of your wish though, the version 3.10 BETA is 108K large. > I would gladly take a emacs of this size if >it had multiple(queued or stacked) delete buffers. I am waiting for someone to implement a kill ring with macroes... I am not sure how such a beast should look, and I am hesitant to C code it up without a prototype. > Also, perhaps better >documentation on the macro commands would be nice. For the life of me I >can figure out how to examine a system variable. I am writting a beginner's manual to EMACS, which I hope to get translated into as many languages as I can, and I have made some improvements in the section of the reference manual that you mentioned, but I am at a loss to why you can't look at a environment variable. M-X execute-command write-message &env "VARNAME" which could, of course, be macroed up to a single keystroke. 39 store-macro write-message &env @"Environment variable to display: " !endm bind-to-key execute-macro-39 FN; would set this up on the F1 key. > Also, I would REALLY >like a command that would translate tabs into spaces in the save file and >visa versa. in the actual save file. This would allow me to tab at 4 or 2 >spaces and then switch the whole file to 4 or 8 or whatever tab if I wanted. in MicroEMACS 3.10: find-file "filename" set $tabsize 4 beginning-of-file set-mark end-of-file entab-region would change the spaces in a save file to tabs in the editor. >Some day if I ever have the time( not likely) I would probably hack the C >code myself, but I am kind of busy these days. Aren't we all? >-- >Patrick Champion My views are not related to the > University of Pittsburgh's views. >champ@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu >champ@pittvms.BITNET Daniel Lawrence (317) 742-5153 UUCP: {ihnp4!pur-ee!}j.cc.purdue.edu!nwd ARPA: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu FIDO: 1:201/2 The Programmer's Room (317) 742-5533