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- Freemacs is a programmable editor. The .EXE file is only 21K because
- it only contains a language interpreter and text editor primitives. The
- bulk of the programming is done in MINT, which is a string-oriented
- language. Freemacs is yet another Emacs clone. Emacs was first written
- at MIT by Richard M. Stallman.
-
- There are a number of Emacs clones for the PC available. Unlike all
- the others, Freemacs is the only IBM-PC editor that tries to be like
- GNU Emacs. Freemacs's only major failings are that it cannot edit files
- larger than 64K, and it has no undo facility.
-
- You may freely copy this software. I only ask that you send
- improvements back to me for incorporation into the package for the
- rest of us. Information on how to get the distribution is available
- in the file HOWTOGET.IT
-
- Addresses, electronic and otherwise:
-
- Author: Russell Nelson
- Internet: nelson@crynwr.com
- Snail: 11 Grant St., Potsdam, NY 13676
-
- There is a mailing list on the Internet. To subscribe, send a
- message of the form "subscribe freemacs-help" to
- listserv@sun.soe.clarkson.edu. To get off the list, send
- "unsubscribe freemacs-help" to the same address. To submit something
- to the list, send it to freemacs-help@sun.soe.clarkson.edu.
-
- There are two other mailing lists, freemacs-announce, and
- freemacs-bugs. Freemacs-announce is for announcements of freemacs
- news, and has very low traffic. Freemacs-bugs is for people who are
- working on Freemacs.
-
-
- Getting started:
-
- Obviously you have extracted this file already, so you don't need to be
- told how to unpack an archive. You should put all the Freemacs files into
- a subdirectory (I will assume \EMACS).
-
- DOS 2.x users (is anyone still using DOS 2.x??)
-
- You need to add a line to your autoexec.bat file that reads "set
- emacs=x:\EMACS". Replace "x:" with the drive that you have placed
- Freemacs in.
-
- DOS 3+ users:
-
- You should ensure that emacs is executed out of the subdirectory in which
- the Freemacs files are stored. You can do this two ways -- you can include
- \EMACS in your path, or you can put a small batch file on your path. For
- an example of a batch file, look at the included E.BAT.
-
- Freemacs is shipped uncompiled. The editor source files are all the
- files with .MIN extensions. Freemacs will compile itself using these
- files. After the compiling is finished, you can delete all .MIN
- files.
-
- To compile Freemacs, just run it. It will ask if you want to compile
- the files. You do. After it finishes, which can take a little or a
- lot of time depending on how fast your processor is, you should run
- it again. The second time through it compiles the help files.
-
- If you are unfamiliar with Emacs, you should run emacs, get help, and read
- the tutorial. The opening screen has instructions for doing this.
-
-
- Modifying Freemacs:
-
- There are lots of simple changes that you can make without really needing
- to understand MINT. For example, the mode line uses inverse video. If
- you would like to change the colors, use M-x edit-options.
-
- If you would like to do simple customizations like key rebinding, see
- the file CUSTOMIZ.DOC.
-
- If you would like to learn how to program in MINT, see the file MINTTUT.DOC.
-