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From: mark@cogent.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: An amateur asks dumb questions (was: Unresolved lables in Emacs 3.8b)
Message-ID: <181@cogent.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 21-Mar-87 02:11:54 EST
Article-I.D.: cogent.181
Posted: Sat Mar 21 02:11:54 1987
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Reply-To: mark@cogent.UUCP (Mark Steven Jeghers)
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Organization: Cogent Software Solutions, Stockton, CA
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Summary: Well, it's running now...


Well, MicroEmacs 3.8b is now up and running.  Having never seen emacs
before, I now have a few dumb questions to ask, so please indulge me.

1. Am I hallucinating or does MicroEmacs really look very much like
   Perfect Writer, which is made by Perfect Software?

2. I notice that some of the documentation is unformatted (appears at
   glance to be Perfect Format compatible).  Is there a formatting
   program that accompanies MicroEmacs? (how else to print the stuff?)

3. I also notice references to an Emacs 18.40 and a GNU Emacs.  Can
   someone please describe for me the entire Emacs family of programs?

4. My version of MicroEmacs has two terminal-related bugs:

   a. The screen sometimes garbles due to overrun.  Is there any
      timing value in the source that I can adjust to slow the
      output down a few milliseconds?

   b. Portions of the Status Line loses its reverse-video attribute.
      It seems to happen when part of the Status Line is redrawn.

5. What is an "Emacs shell"?  Is that a part of MicroEmacs?

6. Assuming that other Emacs-related programs are out there (fuller
   implementations, etc), where can I get my hands on them?

   Thanks in advance.
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