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-*-text-*-
The following description of ME2 was extracted from the readme file in
doc.zip:
This stuff is released as GNU Ware - use, share and enjoy.
What is ME2?
---- -- ----
ME2 is a medium-small, portable, extendable Emacs-like editor
that is known to compile and run on HP-UX (Series 800, 700 and
300), BSD Unix (Sun, Apollo, DEC, etc), IBM AIX, OSF/POSIX (HP
and DEC) and MS-DOS/PC-DOS (IBM PCs and compatibles).
Standalone, ME2 is pretty mundane - you need to customize it to
make full use of it. A compiled language is provided for this
as well as lots of example programs: a C mode, paren matching,
a visual towers of hanoi, incremental searching, programmers
calculator, mark rings, multi file search (and replace) picture
mode (from GNU Emacs), gomoku (from GNU Emacs) and lots more.
Other features include the ability to have concurrent processes
(such as make) running in a buffer (Unix only).
THE MS-DOS DISTRIBUTION
--- ------ ------------
This is a special MS-DOS distribution of Craig Durland's Mutt Editor II
and compiled the MC2 program. John Burnell compiled the ME2 program.
Bob Stocker wrote these instructions and put together the distribution.
Original files were all downloaded via anonymous ftp from
hpcvaaz.cv.hp.com.
I deleted C source code from the original shell-archive distribution and
added several DOS niceties -- like a .bat file for compiling core Mutt
programs and (hopefully) these instructions.
To keep things relatively uncluttered without getting involved in
subdirectories (which often unzip into one directory anyway you're not
careful), I've put related things together in separate .zip files. This
is what they contain:
File Contents
---- --------
doc.zip Documentation. See the file contents.doc for some clues
about what the individual files contain.
I changed some file names to eliminate conflicts which
arose when these files were collected into a single
archive, but didn't modify the contents of any files.
mutt2.zip Core Mutt programs used to extend the functionality of
ME2.
I corrected a minor bug in search.mut and reported it to
Craig Durland. I also added
-- an osstuff.mut file that defines important gray
keys on new-style keyboards that have function keys
across the top.
-- a compile.bat file to compile the core Mutt
programs.
-- a dummy myme.mut file to keep my simple-minded
compile.bat from choking when it doesn't find a
myme.mut (which is the standard place for putting
your personal modifications and extension to ME2).
mc2mutt.zip Sample Mutt programs from the mc2\mutt directory of the
general ME2 distribution.
You can safely ignore most of this stuff until you feel
inclined to write your own extensions to ME2.
me2mutt.zip Sample Mutt programs from me2\mutt directory of the
general ME2 distribution.
You may want to look at Craig Durland's myme.mut file in
this archive. Unless you want to get involved in Mutt
programming, you can safely ignore most of the stuff
too.
bobsmutt.zip Extensions that I currently use to make ME2 behave more
like GNU Emacs.
It's safe to ignore this too -- though I personally find
life more bearable when I can use page-other-window and
save-buffers-and-exit.
HOW TO INSTALL ME2
--- -- ------- ---
1) Copy me2.exe and mc2.exe to a directory in your search path. For
example, if you keep executables in c:\bin use commands like:
copy me2.exe c:\bin
copy mc2.exe c:\bin
2) Create a directory for storing compiled Mutt programs. For
example, on my system I store these kinds of things in
subdirectories of c:\lib. I used the command
md c:\lib\mutt
to create a new directory for compiled Mutt programs.
3) Copy mutt2.zip to the directory that you created in step (2). For
example (using my choice of directory name):
copy mutt2.zip c:\lib\mutt
4) Cd to the directory that you created in step (2). For example
(again using my choice of directory name):
c:
cd \lib\mutt
5) Unzip mutt2.zip.
6) Enter the command
compile
to compile the Mutt2 programs.
7) Set the environment variable ME2 to the directory that you created
in step (2). For example (again using my choice of directory
name):
set me2=C:\lib\mutt
8) Add the set command from step (7) to your autoexec.bat file so the
environment variable ME2 will be set automatically next time you
reboot.
9) As a quick test, run me2, hit Escape x load <return> ganoi
<return> and use 4 disks. If you get the towers of hanoi, things
are probably working pretty well.
10) Unzip doc.zip and read as much of the documentation as you feel
you need. If you're familiar with either Gosling's Emacs or GNU
Emacs you should be able to begin doing useful things after
scanning qref.doc.