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From: wrp@biochsn.acc.virginia.edu (William R. Pearson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: MicroEMACS
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Date: 5 Jan 89 19:43:54 GMT
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]> Summary: how do I get to use the alt key for the meta key
]> References:
]> I have downloaded MicroEMACS ver 3.9 from the simtel archive,
]> but It makes me hit ESC then X for M-X.  
]> I would much rather hit the ALT and X at the same time, like on unix
]> (on a SUN the LEFT and RIGHT keys are the same as the ALT key)
]
]MicroEMACS is the best Emacs I've seen other than GNU. The great thing
]about MicroEMACS is that you can have the same editor running both at
]home and at work.

	For about $195, you can get Epsilon from Lugaru Software
Pittsburg PA, (available for MS-DOS, Xenix, Microport SysV).  It
lets you use the ALT- key as a meta key, does better C-S incremental
search, and is a great EMACS implementation.  It also lets you run
a DOS job in a buffer as a sub-shell. I would say that it
is better than GNU, because it consumes so much less resources, and
runs on smaller machines.

Bill Pearson
wrp@virginia.EDU, .BITNET, .UUCP