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From: dean@coplex.UUCP (Dean Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Next MicroEmacs version (problems)
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Date: 7 Sep 89 06:00:25 GMT
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drk@athena.mit.edu (David R Kohr) writes:

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

  I am a die-hard MicroEmacs user.  Have been for almost 3 years.  It is
definitely the best small-scaled editor ever produced.

  However, I do have one MAJOR complaint that I hope any future versions of
MicroEmacs will fix.  MicroEmacs version 3.10 has TERRIBLE Meta-Key
translating routines that used to be WONDERFUL in version 3.9  We are
running MicroEmacs on UNIX 5.2 and have been for almost 3 years.

  I ended up having to delete the Meta-Key routines from 3.10 and merge
in the ones from 3.9 because it wouldn't correctly accept a Meta-Key
that was equal to an ESCAPE character.  Thus it would get confused
between functions-keys and bound commands.  No function keys or special
keys would work (such as NEXT-PAGE keys, etc.)

  Anyway, the changes I made involved rewriting about 2 ".c" files.

  Dont get me wrong, I LOVE MicroEmacs.  I just hope that this problem
gets resolved in future versions.  It makes it very difficult to run
on character-based terminals (i.e. Wyse-60's, etc.).

--
dean@coplex.UUCP   Dean A. Brooks
                   Copper Electronics, Inc.
                   Louisville, Ky
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