[comp.emacs] emacs.release

marria@polya.Stanford.EDU (Michael R. Marria) (06/07/88)

	I find that this version of emacs is a vast improvement
over what I was using, the uemacs that I snarfed from HZ100
sometime back.
	It is much faster on the screen and handles the screen
and cursor movements in more the way I would have hoped.
	I never liked the way the old uemacs did half page
scrolls forward and backwards on C-N and C-P commands near the 
top and bottom of a window. It was always difficult to display
exactly the section I wanted of a file.
	Freemacs keeps the cursor a few lines away from the top or
bottom and scrolls one line at a time with these commands giving you
a view of what is coming or going from the cursor before it is completely
gone.
	There are lots of other neat features that I haven't got
far into yet, but overall, I am very happy with the change.


					Michael

cjeffery@arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery) (06/07/88)

From article <2999@polya.Stanford.EDU>, (Michael R. Marria):
> 	I find that this version of emacs is a vast improvement
> over what I was using, the uemacs that I snarfed from HZ100
> sometime back.

Freemacs looks pretty awesome to me too.  I was pretty thrilled with
it and its extension language until I tried ^x2 twice in a row.  Two
windows maximum, folks.  I imagine that freemacs will be THE editor
of choice under DOS, after it has evolved a bit more.  But for now,
I'll still with uEmacs 3.9++ !
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pre1@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Grant Prellwitz) (06/07/88)

I just thought that I should post the correct directory in SIMTEL20.ARPA,
since the location given in a previous posting was incorrect.  The files
are located in the directory PD1:<MSDOS.FREEMACS> as of 6/5/88.  There are
five files, listed in the previous posting.  See that posting for definitive
names, what follow are from memory:

EMACS15A.ARC	the EMACS executables			~126KB
EMACSPEL.ARC	a spelling checker			~ 16KB
EMACSEGA.ARC	some EGA utilities			~  5KB
EMACS100.ARC	not sure about name; Z-100 version
EMAC15AS.ARC	not sure about name; ASM sources

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