mrwittma@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Martin R. Wittmann) (01/30/89)
ME, the Mutt Editor by Craig Dunford, which I recently got from the net, looks like a great pseudo-Emacs. But, I have a problem using it: On both my work PC (a genuine IBM PC XT) and own (Toshiba 1200HB), anything I type appears to be translated into some bizarre L*O*N*G keycodes on the bottom line of the screen, under the mode line. When these codes exceed one line length, I get a line feed so I can fit more codes on the screen! The typed text also (sort of) appears in the buffer above... I would like to learn/use this editor-- what am I doing wrong? I am simply running the mepc.exe which was in me_cd.arc. My monitors are monochrome and cga. No other "version specific" code appeared to be included, except some keyboard defs for an HP150 or some such. Alternatively, (no offense, Craig D.), is there some other PD/shareware programmable editor of the many available which is clearly superior? (Email responses significantly different from posted articles will be summarized and posted.) Thanks.... Martin Wittmann
abcscnuk@csuna.UUCP (Naoto Kimura) (02/01/89)
In article <5925@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> mrwittma@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Martin R. Wittmann) writes:
]ME, the Mutt Editor by Craig Dunford, which I recently got from the net,
]looks like a great pseudo-Emacs. But, I have a problem using it:
]
]On both my work PC (a genuine IBM PC XT) and own (Toshiba 1200HB),
]anything I type appears to be translated into some bizarre L*O*N*G
]keycodes on the bottom line of the screen, under the mode line. When
]these codes exceed one line length, I get a line feed so I can fit more
]codes on the screen! The typed text also (sort of) appears in the
]buffer above...
You didn't have ANSI.SYS installed. Put in your CONFIG.SYS
device=c:\dos\ansi.sys
to have it installed when you boot up. The bizarre stuff that
appears at the bottom are escape codes to move cursor around.
Another helpful thing is to put
set ME=C:\mutt\
in your AUTOEXEC.BAT so that it will know where to find the
support files (of course, you will probably have it installed
on a different directory, but you get the idea don't you ?).
Make sure that you put the trailing backslash ("\"), otherwise
it won't be able to find anything because it just appends the
filename it is looking for to that string.
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]Thanks.... Martin Wittmann
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