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From: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Early experience with MicroEMACS 3.9
Message-ID: <4916@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 10:49:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: j.4916
Posted: Tue Aug  4 10:49:06 1987
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Reply-To: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Daniel Lawrence)
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Summary: responce to some bugs

It always amazes me that MicroEMACS gets around so fast after I post it
to my BBS. I haven't even gotten this stuff off to the proper moderators
yet.

In article <6867@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
>
>A few words about the new features, documentation, and bugs in memacs
	[he talks about the new stuff]
>
>There is a spelling checked (MicroSPELL) included, and I haven't really
>had a chance to check it out. I did find 31 spelling errors in the EMACS
>document, but it may not have been thru the checker. I'm mailing the
>fixes to the author.
>
Yea    thats the big reason I wrote the spell checker, I can't spell
worth a &^%$. I was so late on getting this out, I spaced spell checking
the manual.

>Several gotcha's, one small and one (for me) huge. The nice ACMODE flag
>in the source is gone. The editor enters CMODE whenever a .c or .h file
>is opened. There is some was to disable this (it's either in a macro, or
>a macro is called every time a file is opened so you can reset the mode)
>but it is not obvious in either the source code or documentation. I
>finally bound a key to "disable CMODE".
>
Whatever MACRO is bound to the illegal keystroke M-FNR is called
whenever a file is read in. In the standard .emacsrc, this then parses
the file extention and adds CMODE for .C and .H files. This was ment to
be more flexable then the old ACMODE code.

>The big problem I had was that input from files and keyboard is handled
>in a slightly different way.  When doing bindings from the .emacsrc
>file, all of the functions are assumed to be upper case, with a comment
>indicating that this is true in DOS.  My rc file bound "next-line" to
>FNB (the down arrow) and to FBb (Shift F4) a macro which undoes changes
>to a buffer by marking it as unmodified, then reading the original file
>back in. 
>
	[he then goes on to discribe a disaster]

Ok, I'll look into the case treatment of the text function key names.

>
>In spite of comments in the code indicating that it should be smaller,

	The section that the comment was about did turn out smaller...
		creeping featurism creept in however

>	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
>  {chinet | philabs | sesimo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen

	Having gotten permishion to post finally, from the powers that
be here at purdue, I will try to be more responcive in the newsgroup
here.

			Daniel Lawrence
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