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From: rupley@arizona.edu (John Rupley)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Desperatelly looking for microemacs 3.9
Message-ID: <2749@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: Sat, 7-Nov-87 23:08:32 EST
Article-I.D.: megaron.2749
Posted: Sat Nov  7 23:08:32 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 10-Nov-87 05:09:16 EST
References: <72@cui.UUCP> <5745@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
Lines: 57
Keywords: microemacs 3.9
Summary: comments, suggestion, uEMACS distribution

In article <5745@j.cc.purdue.edu>, nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence) writes:
> In article <72@cui.UUCP> pintado@cui.UUCP (PINTADO Xavier) writes:
> >Is there anybody  on the network that could send me microemacs 3.9.
> >I think that this version did not appear in the European network.
> >Could someone send it to me or repost it in News.
> >
> 	A common enough request, but I need to explain why and ask a
> question. On June 20th I sent a full MicroEMACS 3.9 distribution kit to
> the moderator of comp.unix.sources. He sat on it for three full months.
> When someone asked him why, he responded indicating that editors were
> simply not a high priority.
> 
> 	I know that I have put a lot of work into this. Some people have
> 	So, my question is this. I have version 3.9e running and almost
> ready for distribution. Do you want me to post this? Where? (remember,
> mod.sources.unix won't post it).
 

I learned long ago, from one of your earlier postings, that I could
pull sources from your FIDO number.  Some machine administrators
might not like the long, slow transfer, however, so not everyone
can do this.  I see that CUG is distributing 3.9, but again, not
all mainframes can easily read floppies.

Why not try a four-pronged approach:
	(1) Privately convince one of the comp.sources archive sites
to carry the latest Microemacs for anonymous ftp.  If this is not
possible, then how about purdue.edu?
	(2) Same as (1), but for uucp.
	(3) Your FIDO, as it is.
	(4) C Users' Group, as it is, but convince them to keep 
up-to-date (they are usually a major version behind).

Comp.sources posting, even if the administrative decision is changed 
(and the moderator might not be responsible for the current policy), 
does not solve the distribution problem for those for whom (1) and (2) 
are not possible options. Also, one has the feeling that most of the 
requests in comp... are from people who do not read the comp.sources 
indices.  So every so often a list of Microemacs archive sites should 
be posted, regardless of whether there is change in the comp.sources 
policy regarding Microemacs. 

Have you plans for adding any of the following options to Microemacs?
	column moves (vertical block moves)
	side-by-side windows
	search and replace across buffer/file boundaries
	an nroffable manual (a troff version had line count
		problems under nroff)

Thanks for useful and beautifully written code!


John Rupley
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