Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!infbs!neitzel From: neitzel@infbs.UUCP (Martin Neitzel) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: features of small emaces Summary: Charles Hedrick asks for uE with TenexExpansion, I can help Keywords: microemacs, ue, tenex expansion Message-ID: <904@infbs.UUCP> Date: 18 Jun 88 21:00:26 GMT References: Reply-To: neitzel@infbs.UUCP (Martin Neitzel) Organization: TU Braunschweig,Informatik,West Germany Lines: 59 Hi! Charles Hedrick writes: CH> CH> I'm looking for an emacs version that has the following features: CH> [...] CH> - has ? and escape recognition for file names, M-X commands, CH> and buffer names (file names being most important). CH> [...] CH> I've heard rumors of patches to CH> Microemacs to do recognition, but I haven't been able to find anybody CH> who is willing to give them to me (or preferably, post them). I CH> understand there is a new microemacs release, but nothing has been CH> said about what's in it, [...] I have written full blown GNU-style TenexExpansionStuff for MicroEmacs. I have sent the diffs to Daniel Lawrence about a half year ago, but never received an "ACK". ("Data post" from Germany to the USA is very expensive, but it seems you shouldn't trust it nevertheless :-( ) Even if he has received the three floppies I wouldn't be worried if he ignored them: It was a massive bulk of changes coupled with new code for LRU-ordered bufferlists and it was not done in the best way. I would be interested to hear about the current state of uE from Daniel Lawrence, too. There has been a rather long silence since his last worldwide distribution. (And accessing any USA-bbs' is not negotiable for us Europeans.) I consider my Tenex stuff useful enough to be posted. But not in diff/patch format. I would post just the routines needed, together with some guidelines, and it would be your job to incorporate them into your version. For example, you would get a function like "tenex_filename()", but application of it in find_file() would be _your_ work. Anybody who still wants it to be posted should drop me a short note. For the email-address see BELOW. In the meantime, Daniel has his chance to stop any unnecessary waste of time and efforts. Usually he has been very responsive on the net. (Thanks, Daniel!) Martin ps: I posted a function for buffer name expansion last year to the net. This one is obsoleted by the new, more general routines. pps: Don't panic. Though from Europe, the code contains "{", not "??<" :-) -- Martin Neitzel, Techn. Univ. Braunschweig, W.Germany BITNET/EARN: neitzel at dbsinf6 (preferred) ARPA: neitzel%dbsinf6.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (preferred) UUCP: neitzel@infbs.uucp ...{mcvax,uunet}!unido!infbs!neitzel CSNET: neitzel%infbs.uucp@Germany.CSnet -- ppps: Could we *please* all abandon those multiple ">>>" citations and replace them with "initialized" citations like above? They also make nested citations unnecessary. (I know, this is the wrong group...)