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