MicroEMACS version 3.11 Release Notes 31-Oct-91 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (C)Copyright 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 by Daniel M. Lawrence MicroEMACS 3.11 can be copied and distributed freely for any non-commercial purposes. Commercial users may use MicroEMACS 3.11 inhouse. Shareware distributors may redistribute MicroEMACS 3.11 for media costs only. MicroEMACS 3.11 can only be incorporated into commercial software or resold with the permission of the current author. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MicroEMACS 3.11 is available in a couple of different ways. First, it is available via my bulletin board system..... The Programmer's Room FIDO 201/10 (317) 742-5533 24 hours 300/1200/2400 baud There it is arranged as five MSDOS .ARC (SEA format) files, UE311DOC.ARC which contains the documentation files, UE311C.ARC which contains the C sources, UE311H.ARC which contains the header files and assembly sources, UE311MAK.ARC which contains various files to help make EMACS, and UE311CMD.ARC which contains startup and command files. All the various executables are available individually. UE311DOC.ARC includes the files: READ.ME This file EMACS.MSS Final Word II source of USER'S/REFERENCE MANUAL UE311MAK.ARC includes the files: All of these files will need to be examined to set proper directories and options for your individual system and setup. MAKE150 HP150 Turbo C makefile MAKEAMIG Commodore AMIGA AZTEC makefile MAKEANSI IBM-PC Turbo-C ANSI version makefile MAKEDGEN Data General UNIX makefile MAKEFMR Fugitsu MSDOS MicroSoft C makefile MAKEGCC Unix GCC makefile MAKEM5 IBM-PC MicroSoft version 5 makefile MAKEM6 IBM-PC MicroSoft version 5 makefile MAKENEC NEC-9800 series MSDOS MicroSoft C makefile MAKEOS2 OS/2 MicroSoft C makefile MAKETC IBM-PC DOS Turbo C makefile MAKETCPP IBM-PC DOS Turbo C++ makefile MAKEUNIX General UNIX makefile MAKEXENX XENIX makefile MAKEZOR IBM-PC Zortech C makefile cmdfix.lnk Link file for CMDFIX.EXE under MSDOS/Turbo C emacs.lnk Link file for CMDFIX.EXE under MSDOS/Turbo C UE311CMD.ARC includes the files: BPAGE.CMD Block and box manipulation page BUFDEL.CMD Select and delete multiple buffers CAL1.CMD Single month calender CAL3.CMD Three month calander CALUTIL.CMD Calander utility procedures CPAGE.CMD C language page EDT.CMD DEC EDT emulator EHELP.CMD Online help system macro functions EHELP1.TXT Text for online help system (part 1) EHELP2.TXT Text for online help system (part 2) EMACS.RC Standard startup file ENCODE.CMD Demonstration of the &xlate function EPAGE.CMD Emacs macro debugging page ERROR.CMD Mark Williams C error parsing file FUNC.CMD Allow function keys on systems with none (like UNIX) IWRAP.CMD Indented wrapping procedure LPAGE.CMD Lisp language mode NEWPAGE.CMD Shifted Function key Pager OPAGE.CMD Cobol Language page (not finished) PLATIN.CMD Procedures for Pig Latin translations POS.CMD Display current line and column constantly PPAGE.CMD Pascal language page SCAN.CMD Spell check scanner for MicroSPELL 2.0 SENTENCE.CMD Sentence operations SHELL.CMD Sample interactive MSDOS shell SMOOTH.CMD smooth scrolling control macro TABLE.CMD Creates a table of bound function keys WPAGE.CMD Word processing page UE311H.ARC includes the files: DUTCH.H DUTCH text header file EBIND.H binding list EDEF.H global variable declarations EFUNC.H function name list ELANG.H Text header control file ENGLISH.H ENGLISH text header file EPATH.H default path settings EPROTO.H C language prototypes for MicroEMACS functions ESTRUCT.H configuration and structure definitions EVAR.H EMACS macro variable declarations FRENCH.H FRENCH text header file GERMAN.H GERMAN text header file JAPAN.H JAPANESE text header file LATIN.H LATIN text header file PLATIN.H PIG LATIN text header file SPANISH.H SPANISH text header file UE311C.ARC includes the files: AMIGADOS.C Amiga system I/O functions ANSI.C ANSI screen driver AOSVS.C Data General Mainframe driver BASIC.C basic cursor movement BIND.C key binding commands BUFFER.C buffer manipulation commands CHAR.C character set mapping and manipulation functions CMDFIX.C old to new .CMD file translation program CRYPT.C encryption functions DG10.C Data General 10 screen driver DISPLAY.C main display driver DOLOCK.C file locking stub routines EVAL.C expression evaluator EXEC.C macro execution functions EXECPR.ASM MSDOS execute function FILE.C user file functions FILEIO.C low level file I/O driver FMR.C Fujitsu FMR terminal driver FMRDOS.C Fujitsu FMR OS functions HISTORY.C MicroEMACS edit history 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 KEYBOARD.C extended keyboard code(MSDOS only) LINE.C text line manipulation functions LOCK.C file locking functions MAIN.C argument parsing and command loop ME.C VMS optional main file MOUSE.C mouse handling user level functions MPE.C HP3000 MPE terminal driver/OS functions MSDOS.C MS/PCDOS I/O functions NEC.C NEC 9800 series terminal driver NECDOS.C NEC 9800 series OS functions OS2.C OS/2 functions OS2NPM.C OS/2 non-presentation manager terminal driver RANDOM.C other random user functions REGION.C region cut & paste functions SCREEN.C screen management functions SEARCH.C search and replace functions SMG.C DEC VMS terminal driver/OS functions ST52.C Atari 520/1040ST screen driver STMOUSE.S ATARI ST1040 assemble code TAGS.C TAG lookup functions TCAP.C Termcap screen driver TIPC.C TI-PC screen driver TOS.C ATARI ST1040 TOS driver UNIX.C UNIX I/O functions VMS.C DEC VMS terminal driver/OS functions VT52.C VT52 screen driver WINDOW.C window manipulation functions WMCS.C WICAT system I/O functions WORD.C word manipulation functions Z309.C Zenith 100 PC series terminal driver Various Executables available include: CMDFIX.EXE Fixes old command files (MSDOS) ME110.EXE HP110 portable version ME150.EXE HP150 version ME520.PRG Atari 520/1040ST version MEAMIGA. Amiga 500/1000/2000 version MEANSI.EXE MSDOS ANSI graphics version MEDG10.EXE Data General 10 PC version MEIBM.EXE IBM-PC CGA/MONO/EGA/VGA version METIPC.EXE TI Professional version MEZ309.EXE Zenith 100 PC series version MicroSPELL 2.0 is also available. This version is the first major update released in several years. These program allows you to spell check text files and use MicroEMACS to scan the file, making suggestions and doing various corrections. 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 useful to many, send me the updates, and as time permits, I will incorporate the ones I understand, and agree with into the master sources. MicroEMACS is available on disk directly from my by sending me $25 per order and a note specifying the disk format and the product that you need. I can fill orders for IBM-PC high/low density 5 1/4 and 3 1/5, ATARI ST single and double density, and AMIGA disks. (You do not need to send disks or mailers, I will provide these.) The distribution set includes on disk all docs, executables and sources. Also I will register you and you will receive automatic notices of new versions of all the programs I am releasing. Commercial licences to allow MicroEMACS to be incorporated into other software packages are also available at a reasonable per package price. Also I am available to do customization of MicroEMACS at an hourly rate. Send all requests to the address below: USmail: Daniel Lawrence 617 New York St Lafayette, IN 47901 ARPA: mdbs!dan@ee.ecn.purdue.edu FIDO: The Programmer's Room 201/10 (317) 742-5533 Voice: (317) 742-5153 evenings and weekends IMPORTANT NOTE ============== On the Atari ST, be sure that MicroEMACS is installed as a GEM application from the GEM desktop. If this is not done, MicroEMACS will grow confused about the state of the mouse, and ring the bell alot to alert the user to the problem. (Mouse handling on the Atari is both complex and triple layered....). New Features since version 3.10 -------------------------------- *** New Help System A much more interesting and usefull help system is called by striking F6 when the standard command files are installed. *** New Windowing system The ability to use multiple screens and manipulate the with the mouse is active in all versions which we can gain access to the mouse. Read the chapter on Using a Mouse in the reference guide, or look up the same in the help system for more information. New commands: cycle-screens (A-C) bring rearmost screen to front find-screen (A-F) switch or create a named screen delete-screen (A-D) delete the named screen list-screens (A-B) how list of screens New variable: $scrname name of the current screen This mechinism will eventually evolve into separate editing windows under graphics based user interfaces like Windows 3.0, X-Windows and OS/2 Presentation Manager. *** Default command files updated and improved The default commands files attempt to take advantage of more new features, and interact better with the mouse. Clicking on an option should usually activate it. These files should prove good examples of MicroEMACS procedure code. *** Portable File Locking If you enable file locking, emacs will warn you when someone else is already editing the file you want to read in. This even works on files across networks to other PCs and UNIX systems. To make this work best, be sure to set your USER environment variable to your account name and your HOST environment variable to the name of the machine you are on. (These will be read automatically under most UNIXs). *** Yet more machines supported MicroEMACS is now supported on the NEC 9801, the Fujitsu FMR series and in the IBM 5550, which is the japanese version of the IBM-PC. These machines do not all support multiple background colors yet. But they do support the use and editing of roman, hirigana, katakana and Kanji (double byte) characters. *** Yes, more systems Bravely, Curtis Smith gives us support for the HP3000 series computers running MPE. I am in shock. (This machine does not even have a heirachial file system). *** New Languages Ok, just new to MicroEMACS..... We now support Latin (yes a dead language) and Japanese. Japanese only displays properly on Japanese hardware which supports KANJI JIS display codes. *** Change Line terminators on output Many people are using MicroEMACS on networks, allowing access to drives on different systems. The $lterm variable tells emacs what line terminators to use when writting files. If you are writting a file to a UNIX file system: set $lterm &chr 10 or to a MSDOS file system set $lterm &cat &chr 13 &chr 10 MicroEMACS will default to the line terminators native to the system MicroEMACS was run under. *** Reads unusual line terminators properly Files with line terminators from foriegn file systems will usuallt be read properly when loading the file into emacs. *** Long lines are faster A new algorith used when reading fles with very long lines makes this operation much faster then it was. *** Replace Mode Is similar to overwrite mode, except characters occupying more than one screen space are replaced with a single character. This effects replacing tabs and DBCS Double Byte characters (Kanji). *** File locks not checked in VIEW mode If a file is read in view mode (using the view-file command, or -v from the command line) emacs does not attempt a file lock on it. *** Word characters customization By default, emacs considers all letters, numbers and the underscore character as characters in a word. The $wchars variable can be set to all characters you wish emacs to consider as part of a word. *** Temporary windows can now pop up By default, temporary windows (buffer lists, variable and function lists, etc) now temporarily pop up, and are cleared by the space bar, or by any command. The space bar will be ignored, but any other keypress will be executed. The $popflag variable can be set to FALSE to cause emacs to use the old split-window style. The pop-buffer command allows the user to display a pop-up window as well. *** File name completion is now functional under OS/2 *** New Magic Mode characters '+' signifies "one to many" and '?' means zero to one of the previous pattern. *** $yankflag variable if set to true tells emacs to leave the point at the begining of a region just yanked instead of the end. *** Clearing replacement strings If you are doing a replace-string (M-R) and want to replace the choosen string with an empty string, striking ^K at the replace string prompt will clear out the default string and execute the replace with a blank string. *** Indentation is now easier Due to great public demand, indenting and undenting are now built in commands. indent-region M-) indents the current region undent-region M-( removes an indent from the current region *** New test function &ISNum allows you to test a string to see if it is numeric in nature. Both positive, negative integers and real numbers will return TRUE when fed to this function. *** New window variables $curwind and $numwind to give the current ordinal and total number of windows on the current screen. *** Groups! Replacement of groups is now allowed during replace commands when in MAGIC mode. Check the help information on MAGIC mode for details. The &GROUP function allows retrieval of the last matched groups. *** Backward Kills All the kill word and line commands take negative arguments, acumulating their text at the beginning of the kill buffer. *** Acommodating formatter languages The string $fmtlead contains all characters considered leadin characters for formatting commands. These commands are not moved around by paragraph reformating when they are at the biginning of a line. $paralead specifies all characters considered the first char of a paragraph. *** Crash Debugging improved When a procedure crashes, $discmd and $disinp are set back to TRUE and a traceback of the lines in all the nested calls leading to the crash is displayed.