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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 small, portable, extendable [GNU] 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), MS-DOS/PC-DOS (IBM PCs and compatibles), OS/2 and
Atari (TOS and MiNT). "Pure" SysV Unix is not supported. ME2
is very customizable via a compiled language (provided) with
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 8 bit character support and the (Unix only)
ability to have concurrent processes (such as make) running in a
buffer.
THE MS-DOS DISTRIBUTION
--- ------ ------------
This is a special MS-DOS distribution of Craig Durland's Mutt Editor II
version 2.5. Original files were all downloaded via anonymous ftp from
hpcvaaz.cv.hp.com. Bob Stocker wrote these instructions and put together
the distribution.
I deleted C source code from the original shell-archive distribution and
added several DOS niceties -- like (hopefully) these instructions,
compiled versions of core Mutt programs, and a .bat file for compiling
core Mutt programs.
To keep things relatively uncluttered without getting involved in
subdirectories (which often unzip into one directory anyway if you're not
careful), I've put related things together in separate .zip files. This
is what they contain:
File Contents
---- --------
doc.zip Documentation.
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.
The file contents.doc provides short descriptions of
documentation files.
mutt2.zip Core Mutt programs used to extend the functionality of
ME2 and a compile.bat file to compile them. Compiled
versions of core Mutt programs are also included.
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.
To try out these extensions extract myme.mco to the
directory where you decided to install your *.mco files.
(See steps (2) through (5) in the installation
instructions that follow.)
contrib.zip Other contributed Mutt2 programs. Currently, this
archive contains an extension to "make (La)TeX input more
fun."
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
(If you are tight on disk space, you won't need mc2.exe unless you
decide to write your own Mutt programs).
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) Extract the *.mco (compiled Mutt files from mutt2.zip by entering
a command like:
pkunzip mutt2 *.mco
or
unzip mutt2 *.mco
(If you are tight on disk space, you can delete mutt2.zip
afterwards).
6) 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
7) 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.
8) As a quick test, run me2, hit Escape x load <return> ganoi
<return> 4 <return>. If you get the Towers of Hanoi with 4 disks,
things are probably working pretty well.
9) 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.