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From article <1991Jun25.172240.11633@ddsw1.MCS.COM>, by dstowell@ddsw1.MCS.COM (David M. Stowell):
> I just found that we have MicroEMACS on this system, but no documentation
> available. I'm beginning to weary of vi, so I'd like to test this out.
> 
> Where can I get good basic documentation for emacs, either by purchase or
> e-mail?  Thanks tons!
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isn't E-Mail, but ftp to wuarchive.wustl.edu.  /mirrors/msdos/memacs
has the source code, docs, etc.  It depends on which version you are running,
but for 3.10 the docs are in a file named ue310doc.(zip | arc | zoo).
If all else fails, send me a note stating the version and I will
try to find them to mail to you.  (If you don't have 3.10 or better you will
want it.)

There is quite a bit of basic information available online also:

	(M- indicates META, better known as Escape, so for example
	 M-A means to press the ESCAPE key, then A.  ^ indicates
	 control, so ^X? means to hold the control key down while
	 pressing X, then type a "?")

	M-A	apropos	- enter a string, it will show all commands
			  containing that string and their key-bindings

	^X ?	descibe-key - press a key (or key combination) and 
			      emacs will tell you its binding

	M-?	help -  shows the most commonly used bindings (if the
			help file is online).  The help file is "emacs.hlp"
			and can be printed for use as a quick-reference.	

	To get a list of all functions and their bindings, press M-X 
	(for execute-named-command) and then enter "descibe-bindings"
	(without the quotes of course).

	There is, of course, no substitute for the manual.

Where are all the users of MicroEMACS?  There must be quite a few, but there
is rarely anything about it in this group.  I have a minimal (by choice)
knowledge of vi; I am impressed by gnu, but use MicroEMACS.  I work on
on SysV Unix and MS-DOS/Novell primarily, but also on BSD, Dynix, AIX, VAX/VMS,
and an occasional MacIntosh.  MicroEMACS is available on all these and works
the same everywhere.  There is no other editor that I am aware of that can
make that claim.  Also, I started using a similar emacs (MicroEMACS ?or?
Unipress) under Version 7 Unix on a PDP/11 where the only choices were ed
and emacs.  Compared to ed or VMS' EDT (or just about anything except the
GNU monster) it is fantastic!

--Don Granaman
alias phys014@zeus.unomaha.edu
alias ff013@unocss.unomaha.edu
-- 

Don Granaman
	 vms: phys014@zeus.unomaha.edu
	unix: ff013@unocss.unomaha.edu (preferred, of course :-)