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From: braner@batcomputer.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Micro Emacs
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Date: Sat, 12-Jul-86 22:51:44 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 12 22:51:44 1986
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Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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I almost dare say that my enhanced version of microEMACS is
done. It includes built-in help, complementing-brace search,
paragraph reformatting, and many smaller improvments.

The Atari ST version makes extensive use of the function keys,
both labelled (e.g. Help, Undo) and not (F1-F10). Access to
the alternate character set (MSB set) has been added, too.

If you send me a (3.5", single-sided, Atari ST formatted)
disk in an appropriate SASE I will return it with both the source
code (in C, about 175K) and the executable version (compiled with
Megamax, about 43K). The source can be compiled on UN*X, CP/M,
MSDOS and VMS, too.

The Proff formatter is a nice companion to microEMACS, if you
don't insist on wysiwyg. (Proff is a dot-command sort of thing,
complete with variables and macros. If you want wysiwyg I don't
see what's wrong with 1st Word. Most printers won't print fancy
fonts except as ugly dot-matrix graphics. And I think
shadow-outline is illegible... Anyway, you don't have macros
with parameters to save you typing in wysiwyg editors. And the
Proff text can be sent over to a UN*X system and itroff-ed to a
laser printer.) I finally compiled Proff (the source is public),
after adding some pointer and register stuff for speed and
smaller size. The resulting 37K file formats proffman.prf (some
32 pages of output) in 25 seconds (reading from and writing to
a ram disk, of course). If you want it too, say so.

- Moshe Braner

Corson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853
(607) 272-3487

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