Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!bpa!sjuvax!tmoody From: tmoody@sjuvax.UUCP (T. Moody) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Micro-emacs question Summary: thanks, embarrassed Keywords: uEMACS docs Message-ID: <1715@sjuvax.UUCP> Date: 28 Nov 88 03:47:42 GMT References: <1712@sjuvax.UUCP> <8335@j.cc.purdue.edu> Reply-To: tmoody@sjuvax.UUCP (T. Moody) Organization: St. Joseph's University, Phila. PA. Lines: 47 In article <8335@j.cc.purdue.edu> nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence) writes: > M-^X set $replace "" > > put this command line in a macro and bind it to a key. Thanks, I'll do it. > Between 3.9p and 3.10 the syntax for specifying function keys >changed. Rather than the cryptic IBM-PC key scan codes that were being >used, 3.10 now uses a standard machine independant set of codes. I'm embarrassed. When I took a closer look at the new emacs.rc file, I noticed the change at once. Well, thanks for changing it; it certainly makes things easier to read. >----=====FLAME ON====----- > Yes, the document is big. But on other hand, so is the program >it is describing. I and a lot of others spend a lot of time assisting >people in setting up and using this program and others and it really >irks me when I have to waste time describing things that I have already >painstakingly documented in the manual. Yes it costs to download from >Indiana... but good lord, the program is FREE! So instead here we are >taking up beucoup bucks on lots of machines across the nation instead to >spread these requests/answers around USENET. Guilty. In fact, I could not download the docs anyway. What I can't afford yet is a new modem. My old one was smitten by lightning. At 300 baud, the doc file would far exceed my time privileges at the Programmer's Room. If I had 1200 baud again, I simply would have downloaded the file. But this is not your problem. Your irritation is justified; I simply want to register the point that I was not *complaining* about the size of the docs. On the contrary, the documentation for micro-emacs is a welcome exception to the rule of sparse or unintelligible documentation for non-commercial (and many comercial) programs. If the file were tiny, there would be something to complain about. > Thanx Todd and all for letting me babble, > Daniel Lawrence I think you've earned it. -- Todd Moody * {allegra|astrovax|bpa|burdvax}!sjuvax!tmoody * SJU Phil. Dept. "The mind-forg'd manacles I hear." -- William Blake