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- BigEmacs is our friend uemacs.exe that has been tweaked to run a little
- faster on True-PC-Compatibles and provides a few extra features.
-
- 1. Large Data Model - You can edit very large files with no problem, provided
- you have the memory in your machine.
-
- 2. Bios screen handler. Makes a big difference in screen updates.
-
- 3. The keypad works. Insert is bound to 'open line', and delete is bound
- to 'delete forward.' Other keys work as you might expect.
-
- 4. 'ALT' commands. ALT <character> is the same as <CTL-X><CTL-<chararcter>>.
-
- NOTES
-
- If you try and suck a large amount of data into the kill buffer, things slow
- down a lot. There is an awful lot of processing going on there, and its all
- done indirect through pointers. If you really need to do this kind of thing,
- don't reboot - go get a cup of coffee.
-
- The default screen attribute is yellow on blue. In order to change it,
- run the program atpatch thusly:
-
- C>atpatch emacs.exe
-
- atpatch displays all possible attributes in a rather disgusting manner, and
- prompts you to choose one. Once you've chosen one, it goes searching for the
- magic attribute byte to change. This takes a minute or two, but I didn't
- figure it was worth optimizing for speed.
-