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From: m1phm02@fed.frb.gov (Patrick H. McAllister)
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Subject: Re: MicroEmacs for Windows (Suggestions)
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Date: 19 Mar 91 16:26:07 GMT
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In article <2539@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> scott@cs.hw.ac.uk (Scott Telford) writes:

   In article <1991Mar15.220555.29028@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@SunOS (Russ Poffenberger) writes:
   >In article <11227@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> rspangle@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Froot Loop) writes:
   >>     I agree that perhaps MicroEmacs should have a specifiable size on
   >>startup, but perhaps the exact dimensions could be set via an options dialog
   >>box.
   >>     I'd also like to see a choice for font, perhaps something smaller like
   >>the two that WinQVT uses for its normal and condensed fonts (or at worst,
   >>8-point Courier).  This way I could get more lines of text on screen at
   >>once, or use less real estate.
   >
   >I too am very impressed. It even handles large files. (Tried a 250Kb one.)

   Some way of setting fonts and window size would be nice. What would be
   nicer would some proper documentation for the Windows version, and the
   source code. It ain't shareware, so where's the source?

Try using Aporia as your shell. It lets you set startup window size for any
application. I agree with you about the need for documentation. What I miss
most, however, is subprocess execution. One of the best features of GNU
emacs on my Sun is the way it handles compilers, etc.; it is particularly
nice to be able to define an emacs command to, say, run the current buffer
through TeX and look at the messages. I was hoping for some of this
functionality in uEmacs under Windows -- it is described in the documentation
for plain uEmacs, but seems to be missing from the Win3 version. Am I missing
something somewhere?

Pat