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[If this has been covered elsewhere I missed it.. sorry..]
Background:
We are migrating most of our software here from a Pyramid running some
flavor of BSD Unix to Ultrix. I am attempting to write a major mode
for the version of gnu emacs we have [18.52.7] that will act like
(emulate) WordStar. I thought this would be fairly easy using other
modes as examples. No such luck...

I have 3 questions:
1- Has anybody done this already (and is willing to offer advice) ??
2- Is there some arcane set of commands that will let me redefine the
   the keyboard ONLY for the mode I am trying to write ?
3- Can somebody point me in the direction of the Lisp manual for Gnu
   Emacs (or offer to mail it to me ? (I can't ftp or uucp it from
   here)) 

Could you please send me email ??? Our newsfeed is occasionally
flaky... 

[I've never tried posting news from within Gnu Emacs.... so if it
doesn't put my address on the end... besides being OLD...
UUCP {uunet!unhd,dartvax}!psc90!pyr545
BITNET andys@ (I can't remember what node we are (it's new!!))     ]