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From: rcpt@rw7.urc.tue.nl (Piet Tutelaers)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Who uses MicroEMACS3.10 on UNIX?
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Date: 28 Feb 91 23:18:10 GMT
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In an attempt to install MicroEMACS 3.10 (the MS-DOS distribution in
several .arc files) on UNIX I ran into several problems.  So I am asking
myself the question: `Is MicroEMACS3.10 used on UNIX at all?' And `Am I
using the correct distribution?'.  The most severe problem I encountered
is the fact that it does not run nicely in a xterm window.  In such a
window the status line is not displayed correctly and the arrow keys
do not work properly. 

If somebody uses 3.10 seriously I would like to know how he did overwin
these problems.  (Don't tell me that I should use the `big' emacs or
jove, we do have both.  Because I use MicroEMACS (3.9e) at home on my
AMIGA, on MS-DOS (3.10) and VAX-VMS (3.10), I would still prefer this
editor above the other emacs flavours and even `vi'.)

The documentation of 3.10 is in MicroScribe which seems the
(micro?)parent of LaTeX.  Because we don't have MicroScribe and don't
want yet another typesetter, I tried to convert the documentation to
LaTeX by using the `s2latex' converter from our TeX-distribution.  It
would still cost me a lot of time to get a nice typeset manual, even
with this converter.  Is there anybody who has done this job already
(troff would be an acceptable alternative--I have the 3.9e documentation
in troff)?

Hope to hear from you!

--Piet

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