mark@cogent.UUCP (03/21/87)
Well, MicroEmacs 3.8b is now up and running. Having never seen emacs
before, I now have a few dumb questions to ask, so please indulge me.
1. Am I hallucinating or does MicroEmacs really look very much like
Perfect Writer, which is made by Perfect Software?
2. I notice that some of the documentation is unformatted (appears at
glance to be Perfect Format compatible). Is there a formatting
program that accompanies MicroEmacs? (how else to print the stuff?)
3. I also notice references to an Emacs 18.40 and a GNU Emacs. Can
someone please describe for me the entire Emacs family of programs?
4. My version of MicroEmacs has two terminal-related bugs:
a. The screen sometimes garbles due to overrun. Is there any
timing value in the source that I can adjust to slow the
output down a few milliseconds?
b. Portions of the Status Line loses its reverse-video attribute.
It seems to happen when part of the Status Line is redrawn.
5. What is an "Emacs shell"? Is that a part of MicroEmacs?
6. Assuming that other Emacs-related programs are out there (fuller
implementations, etc), where can I get my hands on them?
Thanks in advance.
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