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From: drk@athena.mit.edu (David R Kohr)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Next MicroEmacs version
Keywords: MicroEmacs MicroScribe
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Date: 6 Sep 89 03:39:03 GMT
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In article <9993@j.cc.purdue.edu> nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence) writes:
>In article <1329@syma.sussex.ac.uk> leilabd@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Leila Burrell-Davis) writes:
>>[Problem about using the MicroEmacs ^Q quote mechanism in search strings]
>>Has anyone noticed this - fixed it? (It also occurs in version 3.9e)
>
>	Yes, I fixed this in the development sources about 5 weeks ago.
> It will come out with the new version when it is ready.
>
>			Daniel Lawrence  voice: (317) 742-5153
>					  arpa:	dan@midas.mgmt.purdue.edu
>				The Programmer's Room 
>				Fido: 1:201/10 - (317) 742-5533

Daniel,

	Do you have an estimate of when this new version will be coming
out?  Will it be a major version (3.11) or a minor one (3.10b)?  What
major new features, enhancements, and bug fixes will it contain?  And
what is the current status of MicroScribe?

	I'm a very satisfied MicroEmacs user, and I greatly appreciate
both your efforts and the efforts of everyone else involved in creating
the various versions of MicroEmacs.

	I did make one minor fix to my own copy of MicroEmacs 3.10 for
the IBM PC.  The distributed version seems to use DOS to read the keyboard,
which means that certain particularly well-behaved TSR programs (like
Borland's on-line THELP programming language help utility) will refuse
to come up when UE 3.10 is running.  I got around this problem by
having UE use BIOS (which is re-entrant) instead of DOS (which is not
re-entrant) to read the keyboard. I'd be quite willing to share this
modification with anyone who's interested.

David R. Kohr   M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory    Group 45 ("Radars 'R' Us")
	email:	KOHR@LL.LL.MIT.EDU   or   DRK@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
	phone:	(617)981-0775 (work),   (617)527-3908 (home)