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    [ENTER]    Picks a topic      [PG UP] Last Screen        Cursor keys
      [F10]    Exit Help    [PG DOWN] Next Screen        are active
        [I]    Index           [HOME] Main Menu
< >
=>Main Menu
NEXT[The Basics] PREV[Main Menu]



    < > The Basics            < > Modes of Operation

    < > Searching and Replacing    < > Advanced Text Editing

    < > Regions            < > Formating Your Text

    < > Cutting and Pasting        < > Getting at Files

    < > Buffers            < > The Outside World

    < > Windows            < > Customizing Command Keys

    < > Screens            < > Creating Your own Commands




=>The Basics
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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.

    To start editing files, all the keys you really need to know are:

          [CSR UP]        These keys let you move
             |            around in the your file
     [CSR <-]  <--->  [CSR ->]
             |
         [CSR DOWN]

           [F9]         This saves your file

           [F10]        This leaves MicroEMACS

                        [RET] for other basic keys
=>Alternative Basic Keys
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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:

        ^P        Move upward
    ^B            Move backward
            ^F    Move forward
        ^N        Move downward

        ^X^S        Saves your file

        ^X^C        Exits MicroEMACS

    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.

    Press [RET] to learn about the terms used within MicroEMACS


=>Glossary of Terms
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    MicroEMACS uses a number of defined terms which will help you
    understand the rest of this help document.

    < > 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.

    < > 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.



                    [PG DN] for more terms
                        Select term for more info
=>Glossary 2
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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.

    < > 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.

    < > 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.


                    [PG DN] for more terms
                        Select term for more info
=>Glossary 3
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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.

    < > 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.

    < > COMMAND LINE    is the line at the bottom of the current screen
            where you give more information to some commands.




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=>Glossary 4
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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.

    < > KEYBOARD MACROES

            These are remembered sequences of keystrokes which
            can be used to greatly speed quick and dirty repatative
            editing.

    < > 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.

                    [PG DN] for more terms
                        Select term for more info
=>Modes of Operation
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    < > Add-mode            < > Delete-mode

            < > Change mode

    < > Add Global Mode        < > Delete-global mode


















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