From:	"A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date:	Thu, 6 Apr 1995 07:29:23 GMT
Subject:	emacses (was: Re: Questions)

Paul Koning 1695 <pkoning AT chipcom DOT com> wrote:-

> Micro-Emacs ... the Meta keys don't work via Alt (you have to do ESC-foo
> which is a hassle).

My emacs (AAEMACS) which I wrote in Gnu C++ does allow alt-key. esc-key can be
keybound different from the corresponding alt-key (e.g. alt-Q = reformat
paragraph, esc Q = reformat region); but if you type an undefined esc key it
calls the corresponding alt-key.

> Some other things come out of the box wrong, like search, but at least that
> one can be customized to be the automatic incremental search that Emacs has.

AAEMACS has a magic search (but different meta codes from Micro Emacs) and an
incremental search.

> Which brings me to the point that customization is entirely different since
> Micro-Emacs uses a vaguely C-like language for this, rather than Emacs Lisp.

AAEMACS also uses a somewhat C-like format here, not Lisp. I had enough aggro
having to write emacs macros in `Lots of Irritating Single Parentheses' format
when using Prime mainframe emacs before I got a PC. I was never a Lisp fan.

> Micro Emacs ... Windows Emacs (the Lucid Emacs port, from CICA) ...

Is there a list anywhere of where to get all known emacses from?

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