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- MicroEMACS is a very powerfull tool to use for editing text files.
- It has MANY MANY commands, options and features to let you do just
- about anything you can imagine with text. But don't let this
- apparent complexity keep you from using it.... MicroEMACS can also
- be very simple.
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- To start editing files, all the keys you really need to know are:
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- [CSR UP] These keys let you move
- | around in the your file
- [CSR <-] <---> [CSR ->]
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- [CSR DOWN]
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- [F9] This saves your file
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- On systems that do not have special function and cursor keys,
- MicroEMACS works by using control keys. On such a system these
- keys perform basic functions:
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- ^P Move upward
- ^B Move backward
- ^F Move forward
- ^N Move downward
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- ^X^S Saves your file
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- ^X^C Exits MicroEMACS
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- An up arrow before the key means to hold the CTRL key down and
- press the next character. For example, to exit MicroEMACS, hold
- down the CTRL key and strike X and then C.
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- MicroEMACS uses a number of defined terms which will help you
- understand the rest of this help document.
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- < > COMMANDS These are built in functions that represent
- basic things that MicroEMACS does. For example,
- the cursor up key activates the "previous-line"
- command which moves the cursor up to the line
- of text immedietly before the current line.
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- < > BINDINGS A binding is a link between a sequence of keys
- and a command. The command previous-line is bound
- to the cursor up key, and to the ^P key. Pressing
- a key sequence causes the command to which it is
- bound to execute.
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- < > META KEY is the key used to start many commands. On most
- keyboards this is the [ESC] key, but many times
- it is rebound/changed to the key in the upper
- left corner of the keyboard. This is often the
- grave accent symbol.
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- < > BUFFER This is an area of memory set aside to hold some
- text. Each buffer has a buffer name which is used
- to refer to it, and a file name from which it has
- been read or where it will be written.
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- < > WINDOW a section of the current screen which displays a
- portion of a buffer. More than one window may be
- visible at a time. Multiple windows split the
- screen horizontally.
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- < > SCREEN a collection of windows. On a older text style
- system, one screen is displayed at a time. On
- a newer window based system, like OS/2, the
- Macintosh or MicroSoft Windows, each operating
- system window can display a different MicroEMACS
- screen.
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- < > MODE LINE is the line at the bottom of each window naming
- the buffer being displayed, along with its file
- name. Also the active modes of the window are shown.
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- < > COMMAND LINE is the line at the bottom of the current screen
- where you give more information to some commands.
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- < > MACROS are programs written in the MicroEMACS language
- which let you automate repetative editing tasks.
- These help pages are being run by a ralatively
- simple, but powerful MicroEMACS macro.
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- < > KEYBOARD MACROES
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- These are remembered sequences of keystrokes which
- can be used to greatly speed quick and dirty repatative
- editing.
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- < > PAGES These are groups of macroes which have been written
- to handle a particular editing task, and which have
- been packaged to be available from the MicroEMACS
- startup file. These macroes are bound to shifted
- function keys.
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