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EEEEE DDDD L GGG E D D L G G E mmmmm aaa cccc ssss D D L G EEEE m m m a c s D D L G GGG E m m m aaaa c ssss D D L G G E m m m a a c s D D L G G EEEEE m m aaaa cccc ssss DDDD LLLLL GGGG An Emacs-based Message Editor for DLG Version 1.6 - 21-Oct-1994 Alan Bland Quarter Note 442 Seven Hills Drive Fidonet 1:104/121 Boulder, CO 80302 (303)939-9923 USA 1. DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS EmacsDLG is based on MicroEMACS 3.11 (C)Copyright 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 by Daniel M. Lawrence. EmacsDLG extensions to MicroEmacs are (C)Copyright 1993 by Alan Bland. EmacsDLG can be copied and distributed freely for any non-commercial purposes. Distributors of public domain software collections may redistribute EmacsDLG for media costs only. In its unregistered mode, EmacsDLG provides all the functions of any good full-screen BBS message editor, and you are welcome to use it for as long as you wish without feeling obliged to register. Should you choose to register EmacsDLG, you will receive a keyfile that will allow you to use the extra functions, such as: - EmacsFIG, a Gadtools-based program that lets you customize many aspects of your EmacsDLG configuration: colors, quote header, quote prefix, most text strings. You will even be able to install multiple configurations so you can run EmacsDLG in several different languages! The EmacsFIG program is included in this package, but EmacsDLG will not use your configuration changes without a keyfile. - Interfaces to use an AREXX spelling checker and any compatible fortune cookie generator. - Individual customization per-user via the EmacsOpts external program. - Full integration with the Hack & Slash messaging system. EmacsDLG 1.6 21-Oct-1994 - 2 - See the enclosed REGISTER.TXT registration form for details on how to register. If you are the author of a shareware program for DLG, I will trade registrations with you. Contact me with your proposal. My other programs include the popular Wanderer and Al's Blackjack Casino CLI doors, the MenuThing menu editing assistant for DLG, The YaHoo and HeyMon monitoring programs for DLG, and various other teeny BBS utilities. You can always file request the latest versions of my programs from 1:104/121 by the magic names EMACSDLG, WANDERER, CASINO, MENUTHING, and YAHOO. 2. HERITAGE Once upon a time I ran a Xenolink BBS. Xenolink had a very nice full-screen editor called X-Ed, but X-Ed broke during one particular revision of Xenolink. X-Ed's author had vanished, leaving Xenolink without a functional full-screen editor. To remedy this situation, I scrounged the source to MicroEmacs and started hacking. About the time I released the first version of EmacsXL, X-Ed's author reappeared, so Xenolink was fortunate enough to have two great full-screen editors. EmacsXL went through four major releases during 1992 to become the most stable and popular Xenolink editor. Then I switched to DLG (and lived happily ever after?) and promptly created EmacsDLG. EmacsDLG will appeal to your users who also call Xenolink boards. More importantly, it will appeal to users who are familiar with any of the Emacs editors available on nearly every computer platform. 3. INSTALLATION To install EmacsDLG on your system for the first time, perform the following steps: a. Copy the EmacsDLG and EmacsFIG executables into your DLG: directory (or anywhere else you wish). b. Copy the EmacsDLG.HLP and EmacsOpts files into your DLGconfig:Misc directory. c. If you are registered, copy your personalized EmacsDLG.KEY file into your DLGconfig:Misc directory. Then run EmacsFIG from that directory to perform any customization you wish and SAVE the results. d. Install the reqtools.library into your LIBS: directory. You probably already have reqtools.library EmacsDLG 1.6 21-Oct-1994 - 3 - from some other utility that you use. If you don't already have it, you should be able to obtain it from any Amiga BBS, or you can file request it from 1:104/121 by the magic name REQTOOLS. The reqtools.library is used for a file requester for local port file operations. If you do not install reqtools.library, you will not be able to use the file requester. e. Create an entry in your DLG Editor menu for EmacsDLG. In the description, you should mention that it is an Emacs-based editor and that it works for IBM ANSI and Amiga ANSI terminals. Here are the settings to use. The flag settings are very important to the correct operation of EmacsDLG: Name: EMACS Full Screen Editor (ANSI IBM or Amiga) Call string: DLG:EmacsDLG ~b ~h ~r %uname %port CTRL-c breaking: No CTRL-d breaking: Yes Return/linefeed: Yes Echo: No Process killing: Yes Kill pending: No Pass-thru mode: No Pausing: No Raw mode: Yes Timeouts: Yes Verbose pause: No Line freezing: Yes That's all you need to do! EmacsDLG is now ready to be used by you and your callers! 3.1 FILE LOCATIONS After you have properly installed EmacsDLG, you will see the following files. If something does not work properly, check to make sure the files are in their proper locations. EmacsDLG 1.6 21-Oct-1994 - 4 - _______________________________________________________ |File Location | |______________________________________________________| | EmacsDLG DLG: (or elsewhere if you wish) | | EmacsFIG DLG: (or anywhere in your PATH) | | EmacsDLG.HLP DLGconfig:misc | | EmacsOpts DLGconfig:misc | |*EmacsDLG.OPT USER:User_Name (created by EmacsOpts) | |*EmacsDLG.KEY DLGconfig:misc | |*EmacsDLG.CFG DLGconfig:misc (created by EmacsFIG) | |______________________________________________________| |* Only for registered versions | |______________________________________________________| 3.2 UPGRADING FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS If you already have a version of EmacsDLG installed, you should make backup copies of the files and then copy the new files over the old ones. Registered users will then need to perform an upgrade step to convert their EmacsDLG.CFG file from the old format to the new format. To perform the conversion, simply execute the following commands: cd DLGconfig:misc (or wherever you keep EmacsDLG.CFG) run EmacsFIG --> click on the SAVE gadget EmacsFIG will automatically convert the old format configuration file to the new format. If you fail to perform this step, EmacsDLG will exit with an error message when you try to run it. 3.3 MULTIPLE CONFIGURATIONS You may choose to install multiple EmacsDLG configurations. The most likely reason would be to have different setups for different languages, but you might also want to use different spelling checkers or different fortune cookie programs. To setup a second EmacsDLG configuration, perform the following steps: a. Create a directory, say "doors:EmacsToo". b. Copy the EmacsDLG.HLP file into the directory, and use any text editor to edit it as desired. c. Copy the EmacsOpts program into the directory. Otherwise the per-user customization command will not work. EmacsDLG 1.6 21-Oct-1994 - 5 - d. Run EmacsFIG in this directory and save any desired changes. NOTE: You must CD to this directory before running EmacsFIG! e. Add a new editor entry, but use the following call string: DLG:EmacsDLG ~b ~h ~r %uname %port doors:EmacsToo/ NOTE: The directory path MUST have a trailing slash or colon. EmacsDLG will look in the specified directory for its configuration files instead of in the default DLGconfig:Misc/. 4. USER SETUP EmacsDLG has been extensively tested with Terminus 16-color ANSI mode using an IBM font. Any terminal package that performs similar IBM ANSI emulations should perform just as well. Several settings in the user's DLG Options menu affect how EmacsDLG operates: - The ANSI Color setting determines whether EmacsDLG displays color or monochrome. - EmacsDLG adapts to the users screen width and length. - The ANSI Screen Positioning setting determines whether EmacsDLG uses the smart insert/delete character operations. If Screen Positioning is ON, EmacsDLG uses those operations for fast screen updates. If Screen Positioning is OFF, EmacsDLG avoids those sequences, allowing it to work great with most IBM terminal programs. Below is a list of recommended settings for several IBM terminal programs that have a history of not working well with DLG. You will find EmacsDLG works very well when the settings are correct. - QMODEM: Set QMODEM for ANSI emulation, Keypad emulation ON, Numlock ON, and strict color ON. Set DLG for ANSI screen positioning OFF. - PROCOMM: Set PROCOMM for ANSI-BBS emulation. Set DLG for ANSI screen positioning OFF. Regular users of MicroEmacs, GNUemacs, EmacsXL, or other variants of Emacs will feel quite at home with EmacsDLG. EmacsDLG 1.6 21-Oct-1994 - 6 - Many commands have been removed or restricted to prevent users from accidentally or otherwise gaining access to files on your system. The supplied help file lists the most common commands, but other popular Emacs commands also work. Registered owners will receive a key that unlocks several additional features for your users: per-user customization of colors and quote greetings, spelling checker, and more! 5. SYSOP FILE OPERATIONS Several additional commands are available to users with access level 255. The access level is configurable for registered owners. These commands are: ^X^I Insert-file This command reads a text file from disk and inserts it into the message at the cursor. If EmacsDLG is run from a local port (i.e. TL0) and the reqtools.library is installed, a file requester will pop up to let you choose the file using the mouse. Otherwise EmacsDLG will prompt for the name of the file. In case you prefer GNUemacs over MicroEmacs, you may use ^XI rather than ^X^I. If ^X^I detects a non-ASCII file, it will automatically UUENCODE the file. The UUENCODE algorithm is built in to EmacsDLG so no external program is necessary. Your users can use ^X^I to insert a file from their private file directory. A typical use would be to upload a file to themselves, then use ^X^I to mail it to another user. ^X^W Write-file This command writes the contents of the message buffer into a disk file. If EmacsDLG is run from a local port (i.e. TL0) and the reqtools.library is installed, a file requester will pop up to let you choose the file using the mouse. Otherwise EmacsDLG will prompt for the name of the file. ^X^P Print-file This command prints the message buffer to your PRT: device. The same access permissions as ^X^W Write-file are used for ^X^P Print-file. EmacsDLG 1.6 21-Oct-1994 - 7 - 6. CUSTOMIZATION WITH EMACSFIG The basic unregistered EmacsDLG program does not provide any customization options for the sysop. However, the defaults are adequate for most BBS installations. If you register EmacsDLG, you can use the EmacsFIG Gadtools-based configuration program. EmacsFIG will let you select colors, language text, quote headers, and many more options. Since EmacsFIG uses GadTools as its user interface, you must be running Workbench 2.0 or later to use it. No support for 1.3 is planned. NOTE: EmacsFIG will not load or save unless you have registered. Run EmacsFIG in the directory you specified on the EmacsDLG command line when you installed EmacsDLG. EmacsFIG creates a file named EmacsDLG.CFG that contains your customization options. Following are descriptions of each of the options you may configure. 6.1 FILE READ ACCESS This defines the minimum access level for the ^X^I insert- file command. Any file on your system can be read using this command, so it should be available only to you and possibly your co-sysops. 6.2 FILE WRITE ACCESS This defines the minimum access level for the ^X^W write- file command. Any file on your system can be written using this command, so it should be available only to you and possibly your co-sysops. 6.3 TAB WIDTH When the user presses the TAB key, EmacsDLG inserts spaces until the next tab position is reached. By default, the tab stops are set to every 8 positions. 6.4 FORTUNE COOKIE COMMAND A fortune cookie is a random comment, phrase, or joke that can be inserted at the end of your message. If enabled, the fortune cookie will appear after your message text but before your signature (if any). EmacsDLG allows up to twenty different fortune cookie commands to be configured. This lets your users choose different themes depending on the message area they're EmacsDLG 1.6 21-Oct-1994 - 8 - using, or on their mood. For example, you could setup fortunes for Star Trek, Movie Trivia, Famous Quotes, Dead Baby Jokes, or whatever. Click the "New" gadget to create a new fortune cookie command. Enter the command and a brief description of the command. The description is what the users see when they choose from multiple fortune commands, so say something like "Star Trek quotes" as your description. Click the "Delete" gadget to delete the currently displayed fortune cookie command, and click on "Next" to step through all of the commands you have defined. To use fortune cookies, you must find a suitable fortune cookie command and tell EmacsDLG how to run it. The basic requirement is that it must write its message to standard output with no ANSI codes. You should keep fortunes limited to one or two lines to avoid the wrath of other sysops. - Mark Montminy's CRUMBS program is highly recommended. It includes options to limit the chosen cookie to a certain number of lines, and to provide leading and trailing delimiters if you wish. File request COOKIE from 1:104/121 to get a copy of CRUMBS. - Here's a reasonable setup for CRUMBS that limits fortunes to two lines, and puts three dots in front of the fortune to make it stand out: dlg:utils/crumbs -l 2 -p ... - Several databases of fortunes are floating around the DLG community, included the typical cookies, Star Trek phrases, and obscene fortunes. You may also choose to create a database of your own fortunes, so that your messages have a more individualized appearance. Mark Montminy is one source of fortune cookie databases. You can freq FORTUNES from his system, 1:323/119, to get a few large databases that work with CRUMBS. Enter the fortune cookie command in the appropriate gadget in EmacsFIG. Do not use any file redirection. Do not use "run" to execute the command. The command should be found in your CLI PATH, or you may specify the full path of the command. The fortune cookie command line may contain any of the normal DLG %variables. These will be expanded and passed to the fortune program, which may then do further processing. This might be used by a combination fortune/signature program to include the user's name in the generated fortune. Note that this capability is meaningless if your fortune cookie program does not use it. EmacsDLG 1.6 21-Oct-1994 - 9 - By default, the fortune cookie will NOT be added to messages. To get a cookie you must use the ESC-Z (user customization) command from within EmacsDLG. Any user who wants to use the fortune cookies must do this. They will then have a choice of three fortune cookie options: - Never append a cookie to messages. This is the default. - Ask if a cookie should be used when the message is saved. In this mode, the chosen cookie will appear in the lower EmacsDLG window and you can choose whether or not to use it. If you don't like it, more cookies will be chosen until you find one you like, or you give up. - Always append a cookie to messages. In this mode, EmacsDLG will choose a cookie and append it without letting you preview the cookie. This only works if you have defined exactly one fortune cookie command. If you define more than one, EmacsDLG will always ask. The user also gets to decide which of the fortune cookie topics is to be used as their default. They can specify one to use, or they can have EmacsDLG ask them each time they save a message. Remember, to get a fortune cookie you must configure it in the user customization command. 6.5 FILE REQUESTER DIRECTORY The ^X^I insert-file and ^X^W write-file commands use a file requester. You may specify the directory path to be displayed the first time the file requester is used. The default is RAM:. 6.6 BROADCAST PORTS The ESC ! command can be used to send a broadcast message to another port. This is useful if you get a broadcast message from another user, and you want to respond without leaving the editor. When ESC ! is invoked, EmacsDLG shows a listing of who is on-line, so that you can direct your broadcast to the correct port. By default, the port listing will show TR0, TR1, and TL0. Specify the ports you want displayed in the BROADCAST PORTS gadget. Type all your ports together as one string with no blanks. For example, "TR0TR1TR2TR3TR4". EmacsDLG 1.6 21-Oct-1994 - 10 - 6.7 SPELLING CHECKER RUN COMMAND EmacsDLG uses an external AREXX spelling checker. If you wish EmacsDLG to start the spelling checker program when a user first invokes it, specify that command here. Note that you will most likely want to use "RUN >NIL: command" so that the spelling checker is run in the background. The redirection to NIL: is necessary to prevent AmigaDOS from writing the "[CLI n]" message to the user's screen. You may instead prefer to start the spelling checker in your user-startup and leave it running all the time. If you wish to do this, enter a ";" semi-colon as the spelling checker run command. See the SPELLING CHECKER section later in this manual for details on how to configure specific spelling checkers. The default setup will work with Ispell. 6.8 SPELLING CHECKER AREXX PORT Enter the name of the AREXX port used by your spelling checker. The default setup will work with Ispell. 6.9 SPELLING CHECKER CHECK COMMAND Enter the AREXX command used by your spelling checker to check a work. The spelling checker must respond in one of the following ways: - It should send a result code of 1, with a secondary result of "ok" or "bad" depending on whether or not the word is spelled correctly. - It should send a result code of 1 if the word is spelled correctly, or a result code of 0 if the word is spelled incorrectly. 6.10 SPELLING CHECKER EXIT COMMAND Enter the AREXX command that will cause your spelling checker program to exit. EmacsDLG will send this command when the user exits from EmacsDLG. The default setup works with Ispell. You may prefer to leave your spelling checker running at all times. If you wish to do this, enter a ";" semi-colon as the spelling checker exit command. EmacsDLG 1.6 21-Oct-1994 - 11 - 6.11 CUSTOM TEXT Many of the text messages displayed by EmacsDLG can be customized. The scrolling list contains a short description of each text that can be changed. Click on the desired description to cause the current value to be displayed in the large gadget below the list. Then click on the large gadget to change the text as desired. Most of the text strings are obvious. Several need more explanation, and are described below. 6.12 QUOTE GREETING TEXT The "Quote Greeting" is inserted at the top of a quoted message. Several special codes are used to allow you to customize the contents of the quote greeting. The permitted codes are listed below. Please note that the case of each code IS important. Your users may create their own quote greetings using the ESC-Z command (registered systems only). One a user has saved their settings with ESC-Z, they get whatever quote greeting was in effect at the time they saved it. If you change it in EmacsFIG, those users will not get the new quote greeting. The following codes may be used in the quote greeting: %F The full name of the original message author (FROM). %f The first name of the original message author. %T The full name of the original message recipient (TO). %S The subject or title of the quoted message. %q The quote attribution of the original message author. This will be either the initials or first name, depending on how you have configured the quote prefix in EmacsFIG. %d The date and time that the quoted message was written. %N A hard newline is inserted at this point. You normally will want to end your quote greeting with a hard newline. %% A single "%" is inserted at this point. Here are some useful examples: EmacsDLG 1.6 21-Oct-1994 - 12 - On %d %F wrote about %S:%N Dear %f,%N%NYou recently wrote the following message about "%S" to %T:%N %F wrote the lines marked "%q" in the following quote:%N 6.13 YES/NO TEXT The "Input yes" and "Input no" text defines what your user will use to answer yes/no questions. Specify the entire word. EmacsDLG will recognize the first character as the value typed by the user. 6.14 COLORS Click on the gadget above the color pallete to choose which color you want to configure, then select the color from the pallete. The preview window shows you what your users will see using the standard IBM ANSI color pallete. Depending on the terminal program in use, the 8 brighter colors may show up as bold text. 6.15 BORDER STYLE Click on the Border Style gadget to change the way the border between Emacs windows is displayed. Choices include a reverse bar, ANSI single and double lines, and a variety of ASCII characters. Watch the preview window to see the results. The Reverse Bar and ASCII character selections an be displayed on any terminal, while the The single and double line selections require your users to use an IBM ANSI character set. 6.16 QUOTE PREFIX One of the cycle gadgets lets you choose the style of quoted lines. You may select from the author's first name or initials, and the initials may be either upper or lower case. You may also choose a simple ">" if you would rather not clutter your quotes with names or initials. 6.17 SPECIAL OPTIONS The Special Options list allows special customization to be done that is not specifically supported by EmacsFIG. Normally you will not need to use this list. Watch for messages on the DLG support echos for special circumstances where the Special Options may be necessary. EmacsDLG 1.6 21-Oct-1994 - 13 - There are ten entries in the Special Options list. To add a Special Option, click on one of the blank entries in the list, then enter the value in the gadget below the list. To remove one, click on the entry in the list and then blank it out in the gadget below the list. Be very careful when entering Special Options. If you misspell an option, you may cause EmacsDLG to malfunction. 6.18 SPECIAL WORD WRAP OPTION NOTE: This is available only in the ESC-Z per-user customization command and cannot be set globally using EmacsFIG. Actually, there is a way using the SPECIAL OPTIONS list, but there really should never be a need to set this option globally. The special word wrap option causes EmacsDLG to automatically turn word wrap OFF whenever it is invoked with a normal file. Messages and file descriptions will always have word wrap on by default. The reason for this option is that some sysops like to use EmacsDLG to remotely edit their configuration files. Word wrapping must be off when editing those files, else disaster may ensue. The only people likely to set this option are those sysops and co-sysops who regularly edit configuration files remotely. Note that when this option is set, word wrapping will be turned off when creating a DLG bulletin and when adding a comment to a file description. DLG provides no way for EmacsDLG to determine that these particular kinds of files are being edited. If you turn this option on, you will want to use ^XMW to manually turn on word wrapping for those kinds of files. The default behavior for EmacsDLG is to always have word wrapping on. 7. THE SPELLING CHECKER EmacsDLG uses AREXX to communicate with an external spelling checker. Any spelling checker that supports a compatible AREXX interface will work. EmacsDLG has been tested with ISpell version 3.3LJR, and RXSpell, an AREXX spelling checker used by Xenolink. Both ISpell and RXSpell are freely distributable. NOTE: The spelling checker works only if EmacsDLG is registered. EmacsDLG 1.6 21-Oct-1994 - 14 - You can file request a compatible version of ISpell from 1:104/121 (14.4K Dual Standard) using the magic name ISPELL (approximately 550K bytes). You can also find ISpell on amiga.physik.unizh.ch in the os2/util directory as ispell- 3.3LJR.lzh. You can file request RXSpell from 1:104/121 by the magic name RXSPELL (approximately 80K bytes). RXSpell is smaller and faster than ISpell, but knows fewer words. 7.1 SETUP You can setup ISpell in either of two ways. The first way will simply cause misspelled words to be flagged, and allows the user to enter a replacment. Specify the following options in EmacsFIG: _____________________________________ |Spell run run >nil: c:ispell -r | |AREXX port IRexxSpell | |Spell check quickcheck | |Spell exit exit | |____________________________________| The second way to use ISpell is to have it provide a list of suggested replacements for any misspelled word. The user can then enter the correct word from the list of suggestions, or supply their own word. This is the recommended setup. Specify the following options in EmacsFIG: _____________________________________ |Spell run run >nil: c:ispell -r | |AREXX port IRexxSpell | |Spell check check | |Spell exit exit | |____________________________________| To use RXSpell, specify the following options in EmacsFIG: _______________________________________________________________ |Spell run run >nil: doors:spell/rxspell doors:spell/dict. | |AREXX port SPELL | |Spell check CHECKWORD | |Spell exit QUIT | |______________________________________________________________| IMPORTANT INFORMATION: When you configure the spelling checker for the first time, you MUST use EmacsFIG and SAVE the result. Even if you use the default values shown in EmacsFIG, those defaults will only take effect if you SAVE them. My tests show that ISpell uses about 700K of RAM, while RXSpell only uses 70K of RAM. You may want to consider the EmacsDLG 1.6 21-Oct-1994 - 15 - RAM requirements in choosing which spelling checker to use. 7.2 USING THE SPELLER To run the spelling checker on the current message, press ESC-C. EmacsDLG will interactively prompt for each misspelled word, asking you for a replacement. If you choose to enter a replacement, the new word will be substituted for the old one. If ISpell has been configured correctly, EmacsDLG will pop up a window containing suggested replacments when a misspelled word is found. 8. HACK & SLASH MESSAGING INTEGRATION EmacsDLG can be invoked by Mark Montminy's Hack & Slash door game to edit messages within the game. The unregistered version of EmacsDLG will treat such messages as plain files. The registered version of EmacsDLG treats Hack & Slash messages like regular messages. The Hack & Slash alias of the message recipient and subject will appear at the top of the screen, and more importantly, the quote commands work for quoting replies! Please contact me if you are the author of a door program and would like to have EmacsDLG integrated with your door. 9. TROUBLESHOOTING The most common problems with EmacsDLG are caused by installing the files in the wrong places. Please see the INSTALLATION section for a list of file locations. Note that you may also specify a directory where all the EmacsDLG files will live. If you do it this way, everything except the registration key file go in this directory. When running EmacsFIG, ALWAYS remember to CD to the directory where your EmacsDLG.CFG file lives. Otherwise it will create a new one, and since the new one is in the wrong directory, EmacsDLG won't find your settings. When upgrading to a new version of EmacsDLG, registered users should always run EmacsFIG and SAVE the results. This guarantees that your EmacsDLG.CFG file is up to date with the latest version. EmacsDLG 1.6 21-Oct-1994 - 16 - If you get "Spelling checker not installed", you have either misspelled the name of the AREXX port for the spelling checker, or your EmacsDLG.CFG file is in the wrong directory. If you get "No response from spelling checker", most likely your spelling checker command string is incorrect. The spelling checker may return an error number. If the number is greater than zero, it is an AREXX error that you can look up in your AREXX manual. Negative numbers indicate weird internal problems and should be reported to the author. If you get an empty fortune, it's a bug in CRUMBS. :-) If a user has used the ESC-Z command to customize their editing environment, all of the customizable options are saved. If you later make a global change using EmacsFIG, the change will be seen only by users who have not used ESC-Z. Here's the general sequence of activities when EmacsDLG starts up. This may help you in figuring out why something is misbehaving. You might try running SnoopDos is something is misbehaving. 1. Read the user's User.Data file. 2. Read the EmacsDLG.CFG file to get the sysop-customized options. If unregistered, a set of built-in defaults are used instead. 3. Read the user's EmacsDLG.opt file to get user- customized options. All options specified here override the sysop-customized options. If unregistered, no user options are available. 4. Read in the file to be edited, if any. 5. The first time a quote command is used, the quoted message is read in and formatted. 6. The first time the user requests help, the EmacsDLG.HLP file is loaded into memory. Subsequent help requests use the in-memory copy. The ESC-Z command for registered users works as follows: 1. Load the EmacsOpts program, passing to it the options that are currently in effect. 2. If the user aborts their changes, EmacsOpts exits. 3. If the user save their changes, EmacsOpts writes the EmacsDLG.OPT file in the user's home directory, and EmacsDLG 1.6 21-Oct-1994 - 17 - then exits. 4. After EmacsOpts exits, EmacsDLG reads the EmacsDLG.OPT file to make the new options take effect. If a message has already been quoted, the new quoting options will not take effect until the next time EmacsDLG is run. 10. BUG REPORTS Please post bug reports and feature requests to the DLG_DEV echo, or send netmail to me at 1:104/121. Always include the EmacsDLG version number you are running, and your Kickstart and Workbench version numbers. Requests for new features will be treated more seriously from registered users. 11. HOW TO REGISTER See the enclosed REGISTER.TXT file for details on how to register for your EmacsDLG extensions. EmacsDLG 1.6 21-Oct-1994