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are mapped to the keyboard by default. Have fun!
So, where to start? Play around. Use the functions that
your tastes, and it should be forgiving of mistakes.
your editor, you should be able to tailor the editor to
for my mental well-being. If you spend a lot of time in
ability to bind any function to any keystroke essential
that it made unlimited undo/redo capability and the
But for me, the most lasting effect of using emacs was
can then be edited and reloaded.
current macro to a file in human-readable format, which
Alpha has keyboard macros, plus the ability to dump the
recordings of keystroke sequences that can be replayed.
Emacs also uses keyboard macros, which are just
operate on a region that is hilited instead.
operated on by many routines. The same routines also can
limit the "current region". The current region can be
utilities menu). Emacs uses the mark and the point to
capability to have any number of named marks (see the
or selection. I liked marks so much that I added the
to get back to it. The "point" is the current insertion
mark is set, you can later call 'exchangePointAndmark'
that you think you might want to come back to. Once the
Emacs uses the "mark" to specify a location in the text
the default key bindings are the same as emacs.
equivalents and I use some emacs terminology. Many of
want to, but many of Alpha's functions are emacs
don't have to know anything about emacs if you don't
that were born before mice, before cursor keys even. You
Emacs is the best of those dreaded mainframes editors
Introduction to Alpha
down by dragging the selection.
section. The table of contents can be scrolled up and
scrolls the text to the beginning of the selected help
contents. Selecting a line of the table of contents
consists of two parts, the text and the table of
saved, and closed just like any other window. The window
Alpha's Help window is modal. It can be dragged about,
Help On Help
Ephraim Vishniac.
Michael Connick, John Swartz, Masatsugu Nagata, and
Thanks to Karl J. Smith, Jerry Fowler, Butch Anton,
Houston, TX 77251-1892
Rice University
Dept. of Computer Science
P.O. Box 1892
Snail-mail address: Pete Keleher
E-mail address: pete@rice.edu
check or money order out to Pete Keleher.
you when new versions become available. Please make any
internet address with your registration, I will notify
the author. Site licences are $110. If you include an
keep it, please register your copy by sending $25 to
bear in mind that ALPHA is Shareware. If you decide to
You may freely copy and distribute ALPHA, but please
any direct or indirect damage caused by the product.
The Author(s) of this product are in no way liable for
Toronto.
were written by Henry Spencer at the University of
Northwestern University. The regular expression routines
The help facility was written by John Norstad of
Reserved.
Copyright © 1990, 1991 Pete Keleher. All Rights
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