Re: questions about microemacs on Z

James Murff <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:00:46 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.zaurus.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 11:04  AM, DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO) 
wrote:

> I'm having a hard time finding documentation specific to the Zaurus 
> version
> of microemacs. Years ago, I used microemacs all the time, until 
> NTEmacs was
> available. I have a few questions about Zaurus emacs:
>
> 1. What's the difference between me and mec? It looks like me ignores a
> filename given as a command line argument, and mec ignores the 
> guest.emf
> setup file. I'd like to have something that pays attention to the 
> setup file
> and accepts a filename as an argument to edit that file directly.
>
> 2. Shift-fn is the equivalent of Alt, right?
>
> 3. Does anyone know of an emf file that maps the keystrokes a little 
> closer
> to GNU emacs?

I will look around again, it was posted to the list at one time a long 
time ago. Someone
found an html file of keystrokes. I did too, but supposedly there is a 
better one...
I believe this is one of them. 
http://uemacs.tripod.com/meonline.html#chapter1
Probably it is time for us to compile the latest version for the Z. one 
i have is
at least 2 years old.

>
> 4. Is there any way to run a microemacs session and the bash terminal
> separately and switch between them? So far, it looks like I can only 
> start
> up a terminal window and run microemacs in it, and if I try to start 
> up a
> new terminal using its icon I just get switched to the running one.
>
Two ways, One - get embedded konsole with multiple tab support allowing 
mutiple
shells.
other is <ctrl>z to suspend and then 'fg' when you are ready to 
continue editing.

> thanks,
>
> Bob
>
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