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MicroGNUEmacs for the Amiga
This diskette contains the latest Amiga version of MicroGNUEmacs
(MG 1b), a small but powerful text editor that also runs on many
other computer systems besides the Amiga.
One of MG's major goals is to be compatible with its "cousin"
GNU Emacs, so certain features you may have seen in other
versions of MicroEmacs may work differently here, or not exist.
Hopefully, you'll find the added features MG provides to be
worth the trouble it takes to make the switch.
As well as the commands available on *all* systems MG supports,
Amiga MG has many Amiga-specific features: the Amiga mouse (with
24 different functions!), Intuition pull-down menus, the Browser
(a very nice way to select files), Amiga function keys, a
full-screen editing window, and support for using a different
text font in the editing window.
Contents of this disk:
:Read Me
This file.
:mg1b/README
The README file for all versions of MG. It contains a brief
description of MG and its predecessors, and gives credit to the
many people involved in the development of MG. It also provides
network addresses for forwarding bug reports and fixes.
:mg1b/MG
The editor itself. The copy of MG on this disk was compiled
under Intuition 1.2 using Manx Aztec C 3.20a, using the 3.20a
(Workbench 1.1) include files. MG can also be compiled using
Lattice C (see sys/amiga/Makefile.LATTICE for more information).
There are *many* compile-time options that one can turn on and
off when compiling MG. The copy on this diskette was compiled
with just about everything turned on; if you read about a
feature in "Amiga Doc", you should be able to use this copy to
test it.
A request to all you hackers out there: if you play around with
MG and compile in your own changes (or take things out) and then
give it away, PLEASE GIVE AWAY A COPY OF THE ORIGINAL! It's not
fair to give customized software away to someone who's expecting
it to work like the documentation says...
:mg1b/Tutorial
A tutorial for MG, created by Randy Spencer from the GNU Emacs
tutorial. To invoke the tutorial from the Workbench, just click
on the Tutorial icon. To invoke it from the CLI, change your
current directory :mg1b, then issue the command command
mg tutorial
While in the tutorial, you may accidentally modify it and then
end up saving the changes. There is a copy of the tutorial in
Tutorial.backup for just this reason.
:mg1b/Startup.Doc
Information on how to create and use MG startup files. Since MG
is specifically designed to be compatible with versions on other
systems, there are some things that aren't automatically set up
when you invoke the default version. The startup file lets you
take care of these adjustments.
:mg1b/Example .mg
A sample initialization file for MG. You can modify this file
and copy it into s:.mg, so MG can find it no matter where your
current directory may be.
:mg1b/Functions
A list of the functions supported by the system-independent part
of MG. This includes the bulk of the editing functions.
:mg1b/sys/amiga/Amiga.Doc
Documentation on the Amiga-specific functions supported by Amiga
MG, including information about compilation options, the mouse,
the Browser, rebinding function keys, and the like.
:mg1b/#?
Sources (in C) for the system-independent and Amiga-specific
parts of MG 1b.
:mg1b/Other_Systems/#?
Compressed tar files containing the system-specific sources for
*all* the other systems MG supports. The file README gives
brief instructions on how to reconstitute the files from
their compressed and packed state.
Enjoy,
Mic Kaczmarczik
2101 San Gabriel, #202
Austin, TX 78705
UUCP: ...!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!mic
ARPA: mic@ngp.utexas.edu
BITNET: ccep001@UTADNX.BITNET
P.S. Thanks to the Dallas SCOPE (Society of Commodore Owners & PET
Enthusiasts) for the use of their More program and text file icons,
and Peter Goodeve for the use of his XICON program.