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From: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Next MicroEmacs version
Keywords: MicroEmacs MicroScribe
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Date: 6 Sep 89 14:35:14 GMT
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In article <14078@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> drk@athena.mit.edu (David R Kohr) writes:
>	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 believe that I will have a minor revision ready to release via
BBS and anon-ftp at the end of September.  It mainly contains a few bug
fixes and some good work on the search commands.

	I am currently occupied writing a portable object oriented
preprocessor for C (no, not C++... it has problems I don't want to deal
with) and when I have this ready, I will both release it, and use it for
another go at MicroSCRIBE (The standard version I had been writting just
got too messy...).

	As to major things for uEMACS, I am looking at folding text and
handling screen attributes char by char instead of line by line (so we
can highlight regions....).  I would not expect this for quite some time
though.  I will continue to post intrim versions until then.

>	I did make one minor fix to my own copy of MicroEmacs 3.10 for
>the IBM PC.

	Send it in!

>David R. Kohr   M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory    Group 45 ("Radars 'R' Us")

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