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From: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Micro-emacs question
Summary: document flame
Keywords: uEMACS docs
Message-ID: <8335@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 23 Nov 88 15:02:52 GMT
References: <1712@sjuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence)
Organization: Purdue University
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In article <1712@sjuvax.UUCP> tmoody@sjuvax.UUCP (T. Moody) writes:
>
>Two questions, really.
>
>(1) A while back, someone posted a question about how to do a global
>delete without exiting micro-emacs and restarting the program to reset
>the default replace string to the null string.  I don't recall seeing an
>*answer* to this question, however.  Does anyone know how to do it?
>
	M-^X set $replace ""

	put this command line in a macro and bind it to a key.

>(2) I just acquired 3.10 (beta).  While the emacs.rc file supplied with
>the program, and its associated command modules, seems to work fine, the
>emacs.rc file that I had built for my own use doesn't work at all with
>this version (although it works fine with 3.9n).  Whatever function key
>I press, I get the message "Key not bound."  I do not have the new docs
>(this is a monster file that I cannot afford to download from Indiana),
>but I am wondering if the syntax for binding functions to keys has been
>changed.
>
	Between 3.9p and 3.10 the syntax for specifying function keys
changed.  Rather than the cryptic IBM-PC key scan codes that were being
used, 3.10 now uses a standard machine independant set of codes. 
Function key 4 is, for example, FN4.  The program called CMDFIX.EXE
which was also in the file area you downloaded EMACS from can be run on
any old command file to automatically translate it.

----=====FLAME ON====-----
	Yes, the document is big. But on other hand, so is the program
it is describing.  I and a lot of others spend a lot of time assisting
people in setting up and using this program and others and it really
irks me when I have to waste time describing things that I have already
painstakingly documented in the manual.  Yes it costs to download from
Indiana... but good lord, the program is FREE!  So instead here we are
taking up beucoup bucks on lots of machines across the nation instead to
spread these requests/answers around USENET.

	Todd, this is not really specifically directed at you.  It is
just that I have spent 3 years in my spare time working on this program
and lately I have been getting a lot of indignant people upset because I
have not been available for 24 hour phone support. (Support calls from
germany and australia come in at the oddest times).

	Yesterday I was in the middle of band practice (I play guitar)
and someone called me up to complain about a bug in MicroEMACS version
3.7i.  I told him that it got fixed 2 years agon, shortly after that
version was released.  Then I explained function the bug was in and how
to fix it, and how to get a current version.  He then curtly informed
me that it was probably too much trouble for him to bother and he would
probably go out and buy UNIPRESS EMACS. Why did this BOZO bother
calling me?

----=====FLAME OFF====-----

	BTW, for people who have downloaded the BETA, the purpose of a
BETA is to test a version for later general release. If you have 3.10
BETA, please respond to me with comments... even if it is to say
everything works, because this will make sure we put out a solid
release.

>Thanks.
>
>-- 
>Todd Moody * {allegra|astrovax|bpa|burdvax}!sjuvax!tmoody * SJU Phil. Dept.
>            "The mind-forg'd manacles I hear."  -- William Blake

	Thanx Todd and all for letting me babble,

					Daniel Lawrence
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