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






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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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