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- MicroEMACS 3.9 Release Notes July 22, 1987
-
- **********************************************************************
-
- (C)opyright 1987 by Daniel M. Lawrence
- MicroEMACS 3.9 can be copied and distributed freely for any
- non-commercial purposes. MicroEMACS 3.9 can only be incorporated
- into commercial software with the permission of the current author.
-
- **********************************************************************
-
- MicroEMACS 3.9 is availible in a couple of different ways.
- First, it is availible via my bulletin board system.....
-
- The Programmer's Room
- FIDO 201/2
- (317) 742-5533
- 24 hours 300/1200 baud
-
- Also it should be online on the following BBS's:
-
- The Starship Trooper Fido 201/1 (317) 423-2281 2400
- Duncan Communications (317) 567-2143 2400
-
- There it is arranged as three MSDOS .ARC files, EMACSDOC.ARC
- which contains the documentation and command files, EMACSSRC.ARC which
- contains the sources and the UNIX Makefile, and EMACSEXE.EXE which
- contains the MSDOS executables. Also all the various executables are
- available individualy.
-
- EMACSDOC.ARC includes the files:
-
- README This file
-
- (These four files should be in your path for the standard setup)
- EMACS.RC Standard startup file
- BOXMAC.CMD Box drawing macroes
- INDENT.CMD un/indenting commands
- BLOCK.CMD rectangular region cut & paste macros
-
- ME110.RC HP110 startup file
- ME150.RC HP150 startup file
- AMIGA.RC AMIGA ".emacsrc" startup file
-
- EMACS.HLP Online help file
- EMACS.MSS MicroSCRIBE format of EMACS.TXT
- EMACS.TXT NEW EMACS BEGINNER'S/REFERENCE MANUAL
-
- AZMAP.CMD Translate .SYM files to .MAP
- BDATA.CMD BASIS Data statement builder
- FINDCOM.CMD Find mismatched C comments
- FUNC.CMD Allow function keys on systems with non (like UNIX)
- MENU.CMD Sample Menu system
- MENU1 datafile for menu system
- TRAND.CMD Generate random numbers and do statistics on them
-
- EMACSSRC.ARC includes the files:
-
- ANSI.C ANSI screen driver
- BASIC.C basic cursor movement
- BIND.C key binding commands
- BUFFER.C buffer manipulation commands
- CRYPT.C encryption functions
- DOLOCK file locking stub routines
- DG10.C Data General 10 screen driver
- DISPLAY.C main display driver
- EBIND.H binding list
- EDEF.H global variable declarations
- EFUNC.H function name list
- EPATH.H default path settings
- ESTRUCT.H configuration and structure definitions
- EVAL.C expression evaluator
- EVAR.H EMACS macro variable declarations
- EXEC.C macro execution functions
- FILE.C user file functions
- FILEIO.C low level file I/O driver
- HP110.C HP110 screen driver
- HP150.C HP150(A or C) screen driver
- IBMPC.C IBM-PC CGA and MONOCHROME driver
- INPUT.C low level user input driver
- ISEARCH.C incremental search functions
- LINE.C text line manipulation functions
- LOCK.C file locking functions
- MAIN.C argument parsing and command loop
- RANDOM.C other random user functions
- REGION.C region cut & paste functions
- SEARCH.C search and replace functions
- SPAWN.C OS interface driver
- ST520.C ATARI ST1040 screen driver [not verified]
- TCAP.C Termcap screen driver
- TERMIO.C low level I/O driver
- TIPC.C TI-PC screen driver
- VMSVT.C VMS screen driver
- VT52.C VT52 screen driver
- WINDOW.C window manipulation functions
- WORD.C word manipulation functions
- Z309.C Zenith 100 PC series terminal driver
-
- EMACSEXE.ARC includes the files:
-
- MEIBM.EXE IBM-PC CGA/MONO/EGA version
- MEANSI.EXE MSDOS ANSI graphics version
- ME110.EXE HP110 portable version
- ME150.EXE HP150 version
- ME309.EXE Zenith 100 PC series version
- ME520.PRG Atari 520/1040ST version
- MEAMIGA. Amiga 1000 version
-
- At the same time as this release, MicroSPELL 1.0 is being
- released. This program allows you to spell check text files and uses
- MicroEMACS to scan the file, doing various corrections.
-
- MicroSCRIBE, a fairly SCRIBE compatible text formater to go
- along with these programs will probably be available for beta testing
- early winter 1987. This program is turning out to be a lot more complex
- than I thought it would be, and is taking more time to get out.
-
- I have in my possesion a port of MicroEMACS 3.8i to the
- Macintosh, and I will be incorporating the needed changes for the current
- version to support the Macintosh.
-
- Also, I just recieved the modifications to an earlier EMACS for
- the AMIGA made by Commodore. I will be adding these to the current
- version in the near future.
-
- As before, I will continue to support these programs, and
- encourage everyone to spread them around as much as they can. If you
- make what you think are changes that are usefull to many, send me the
- updates, and as time permits, I will incorporate the ones I understand,
- and agree with into the master sources. Being overwelmed with mailers,
- I have discontinued my mailing offer, but if you have a special problem
- getting hold of MicroEMACS, contact me and we can work something out for
- you.
-
- USmail: Daniel Lawrence
- 617 New York St
- Lafayette, IN 47901
-
- UUCP: ihnp4!pur-ee!pur-phy!duncan!lawrence
- or ihnp4!itivax!duncan!lawrence
- ARPA: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu
- FIDO: The Programmer's Room 201/2
- (317) 742-5533
- ATT: (317) 742-5153
-
- BTW: While I am not soliciting them, I will not turn down donations
- of machinery and or funds to help sponsor development on these
- programs.
-
-
- New Features since version 3.8i
- ===============================
-
- *** New Variables (there are a lot...)
-
- $status returns status of last command
- $palette color palette settings
- $lastkey returns last keystroke
- $curchar returns and set the ascii number of the
- character under the point
- $progname always returns "MicroEMACS"
- $version always returns the current version ("3.9")
- $discmd sets display of messages on the command
- line (except via the write-message command)
- $disinp sets echoing of characters during input on the
- command line
- $wline returns and sets # lines in current window
- $cwline returns and set current line within window
- $target returns/sets target for line moves
- $search returns/sets default search string
- $replace returns/sets default replace string
- $match returns last matched string in magic search
- $cmode returns/sets encoded mode of current buffer
- $gmode returns/sets encoded global mode (see appendix E
- in emacs.mss to decode this)
- $tpause returns/sets the pause for fence matching
- (this is in rather arbitrary units which
- WILL vary from machine to machine)
- $line return/sets the contents of the current line
-
- *** New computers supported
-
- Atari 1040ST all three graphics modes, mouse is bound
- to cursor keys for now.
-
- *** New Compilers supported
-
- Turbo C v1.0 under MSDOS is now a supported compiler.
-
- ** New directives
-
- !while <condition> loops while <cond> is true
-
- !break breaks out of the innermost !while
-
- !endwhile delimits the end of a !while loop
-
- All !gotos are legal into and out of a !while loop.
-
- *** Autosave mode
-
- This mode saves the file out to disk every time 256 have been
- inserted. $asave controls the # of characters between saves, $acount
- controls the # of chars to the next save.
-
- *** New functions
-
- &and <log> <log> Logical AND
- &or <log> <log> Logical OR
- &len <str> returns length of <str>
- &lower <str> lowercase <str>
- &upper <str> uppercase <str>
- &rnd <int> generate a random integer between 1 and <int>
- &sindex <str1> <str2> search for string 2 within string 1
- returning its position, or zero if it fails
- &env <str> return value of DOS envirionment
- variable <str>
- &bind <str> returns the function name bound to the
- key <str>
-
- *** Advanced word processing commands
-
- ^X^T trim-line trim all trailing whitespace
- ^X^E entab-line change all multiple char runs to tabs
- ^X^D detab-line change all tabs to multiple spaces
-
- *** Merged EGA driver
-
- The EGA driver is now part of the IBM-PC driver. This driver now
- supports MONO, CGA and EGA cards/modes. (settable by using the $sres
- variable)
-
- *** 8 bit characters fully supported
-
- Eight bit characters (including foreign language and line
- drawing characters) are now supported on the various micro environments)
-
- *** List Buffers expanded
-
- Given a numeric argument, ^X^B (list-buffers) will now also list
- all the hidden internal buffers.
-
- *** -k switch enhanced
-
- If you use the -k (encrypted file) switch on the command line
- without a key immediatly following it, it will prompt you for the key to
- use to decrypt with.
-
- *** word delete enhanced
-
- with a zero (0) argument, M-D (delete-next-word) deletes the
- next word and not any intervening whitespace or special characters.
-
- *** New File read hook
-
- Whenever MicroEMACS reads a file from disk, right before it is
- read, whatever function is bound to M-FNR (which is an illegal
- keystroke) will execute. By default this would be (nop), but the
- standard emacs.rc binds this to a file that examines the file name and
- places the buffer int CMODE if the extension ends in a .c or .h. You can
- of course redefine this macro to taste.
-
- *** Search Path modified
-
- The order in which emacs looks for all .rc (startup) and
- .cmd (command macros) is as follows:
-
- $HOME (the HOME environment variable if it exists)
- the current directory
- $PATH (executable PATH)
- default list contained in epath.h
-
- *** Line length limits removed
-
- Lines of arbitrary length may be read, edited, and written.
-
- *** Out of memory handling improved
-
- EMACS will announce "OUT OF MEMORY" when it runs out of dynamic
- memory while reading files or inserting new text. It should then be safe
- to save buffers out IF THE CONTENTS OF THE BUFFER ARE COMPLETE at that
- time. As before, still bewary of killing blocks of text after you have
- run out of memory.