HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
richard ryan writes:
 > When I put together vm-5.32beta, I get the following message (with a beep)
 > when I "M-x vm"
 > 
 > Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil
 > 
 > It's done this on 2 completely different machines, IBM-Aix and Sun4
 > What am I doing wrong?

This may be the "empty folder" bug which reappear every
even numbered release it seems. :-)  For now, just avoid using
VM on empty folders.

 > Also, I've been trying to get the sys admin where I am to put some emacs
 > niceties on the computer.  Since vm-5.32 is beta, would it be admissable
 > and/or advisable (i.e., cricket) to get it on the system for general
 > use by students and such?

No.  The documentation is still only up-to-date for version 4.
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug
From: kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net (Kyle Jones)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 15:24:10 -0400
Subject: Re: vm 5.32(beta) installation problems
	<l6u1iqINNrb9@spim.mips.com>
Stephen C. Hill writes:
 > I changed my Makefile to read thusly: 
 > 
 >  VM:
 >         $(EMACS) -batch -q -l ./vm-*.el -f batch-byte-compile vm-*.el
 >         cat vm-*.elc > vm.elc
 > 
 > This compiled properly, and I copied the *elc files into my standard
 > Emacs directory (in the load-path.)

This is incorrect.

VM:
	$(EMACS) -batch -q -l ./vm-message.el -l ./vm-misc.el -f batch-byte-compile vm-*.el
	cat vm-*.elc > vm.elc

is what you need.  Remove all the .elc files and `make' again.
From: omoduser@hpbbi4.BBN.HP.COM (#Notes Login Ralf Klein)
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1992 09:53:16 GMT
Subject: vm 5.32(beta) installation problems
Organization: Hewlett-Packard GmbH
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug

Hallo,


I am having trouble installing vm-5.32beta.tar.Z which I picked up from
ftp.uu.net:mail.

vm-version.el

        (provide 'vm)

        (defconst vm-version "5.32 (beta)"
        "Version number of VM.")

Emacs Version

    18.55


.emacs

    (autoload 'vm "vm" nil t)
    (autoload 'vm-visit-folder "vm" nil t)

    (setq mail-archive-file-name "~/VM/OUTMAIL" )
    (setq vm-primary-inbox "~/VM/INBOX" )


The original makefile did not create any .elc files so I changed it to
look as follows  

	$(EMACS) -batch  -f batch-byte-compile vm-message.el vm-misc.el
	cat vm-*.elc > vm.elc

This gave the error
  
        Autoloading failed to define funtion vm 

I kept adding .el files until I had the following in my make file

	$(EMACS) -batch  -f batch-byte-compile vm-message.el vm-misc.el 
vm-folder.el vm-vars.el vm-undo.el vm-summary.el
	cat vm-*.elc > vm.elc

and got the following error

     Invalid function: (macro lambda nil (byte-code "\300\207" [(and (bufferp vm-summary-buffer) (null (buffer-name............


I then tried the following in the make file
	$(EMACS) -batch  -f batch-byte-compile vm-*
	cat vm-*.elc > vm.elc

and got the same error as above.


At this point I got stuck. Can anyone help?


Cheers
Corny
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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug
From: kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net (Kyle Jones)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 21:06:01 -0400
Subject: latest version of vm???
References: <MSANGHVI.92Jul24153308@sol.ulowell.edu>
Mehul Sanghvi writes:
 > what is the latest version of VM available and where can i get it from??

Latest version is 5.32, and you can get it from ftp.uu.net, dir
mail/vm, file vm-5.32beta.tar.Z .

 > and also what are the keystrokes used to invoke the function
 > vm-yank-message (no i am not looking for M-x solutions)

You can use "M-x where-is" in a VM reply buffer to find out.
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
From: kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net (Kyle Jones)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 18:24:15 -0400
Subject: gnu.emacs.vm.info
References: <MANI.92Jul27151343@aix.Berkeley.EDU>
Mani Varadarajan writes:
 > I'd like to know if there's a way to prevent
 > VM from beeping every time I hit the end or the
 > beginning of a folder.  I don't want to disable
 > all my Emacs beeps, naturally, but only those
 > that are triggered by VM (or a subset of those).
 > Is this possible?

Possible, yes.  Easy or desirable from a programming standpoint, no.
From: kiran@touch.mit.edu (Kiran Dandekar)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
Subject: In-Reply-To field does not appear in replies..
Date: 29 Jul 92 21:49:21 GMT
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Hi. 

I am checking out vm version 5.31 (beta). It does not seem to include
the In-Reply-To field in replies inspite of setting the variable 
vm-in-reply-to-format to a legal format string.

Also is there a release version 5.31 or higher?

Thanks,

	kiran
----
  Kiran Dandekar
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology	
  kiran@touch.mit.edu
From: ryanr@beethoven.beethoven.CS.ColoState.EDU (richard ryan)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
Subject: more on aliases and other things
Date: 29 Jul 92 05:58:25 GMT
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Computer Science Department, Colorado State University

Hi,

After mailing a response to the person who asked about
aliases I wondered if there's any way to have vm write
aliases to the .mailrc file.  I like the way elm
not only enquires the different fields you might want
to write in an alias, but also how it will alias the
address of someone who's written you.  It also includes
the name by which you wish to address that person.  What
I don't like about it is how it does so much apart from
the local mail or mailx programs.  I'd kind of like things
to be consistent.  That is, I wish elm would use the .mailrc
for as much as it could especially aliases.

That's a pretty long winded way around my question:
is it possible to have VM
  a)  write an alias to the .mailrc
  b)  associate a name with that alias by which you address the
      person you're mailing to
  c)  alias someone who has written you.

Thanks,
Richard

p.s.  I did let him know that emacs mailers look up the
aliases in the .mailrc file.
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 05:01:41 MDT
From: jerry@math.ep.utexas.edu (Jerry)
Subject: vm-finger.el
From: msanghvi@cs.ulowell.edu (Mehul Sanghvi)
Subject: user defined headers
Reply-To: msanghvi@cs.ulowell.edu
Organization: UMass-Lowell CS Dept.
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:57:14 GMT


#include <stdDisclaimer.h>

hello!
   i wanted to know if it is possible in VM to have user defined headers 
that get loaded up automatically. ELM does this by having the specified 
headers kept in a file called ~/.elm/elmheaders which get added to the normal
headers. the user defined headers do not show up while you are composing 
the message.

also is there a way to encrypt a message in VM?? yes this is another ELM 
feature. the reason i am changing over to VM is that it is so much of a 
lesser pain to just switch buffers to check mail.

peace


--
===============================================================================
Mehul "raja lakhan" Sanghvi    | University of Massachusets at Lowell, CS Dept.
Inet: msanghvi@cs.ulowell.edu  | US Mail:  754 Aiken St. #11
UUCP: harvard!ulowell!msanghvi |           Lowell, MA. 01850-1804
From: ryanr@beethoven.beethoven.CS.ColoState.EDU (richard ryan)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
Subject: Re: vm-finger.el
Date: 28 Jul 92 17:29:55 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Colorado State University

Hi,

I was just wondering if someone could post a complete "finger.el" that
includes the response/update in this news group.

Thanks,
Richard.
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
From: kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net (Kyle Jones)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 13:09:37 -0400
Subject: Telling VM-mail to use mh mailing functions
References: <JOSHUA5.92Jul28123559@csa.bu.edu>
Jim Peters writes:
 > How do I reconfigure VM to use the MH "send" or "post" instead of
 > /usr/lib/sendmail?  

You'll have to modify some VM code and some Emacs Mail mode code.
Even though there's a variable sendmail-program, Emacs (and VM)
still assume the program will take sendmail's command line flags,
so a simple variable change won't be enough.
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
From: kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net (Kyle Jones)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 16:26:37 -0400
Subject: Re: VM and big folders
	<9207171439.AA04282@wendy-fate.UU.NET>
	<STI.92Jul17141939@tahma.cs.hut.fi>
Scott Draves writes:
 > Kyle> I hope to add MH folder capability someday.  It would be a major
 > Kyle> undertaking to add this feature to VM.
 > 
 > eek, i like it how it is.  i used to use mh, and switched to vm
 > primarily because it stored folders as one file.

I don't intend to remove this functionality.
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 08:38:28 -0400
From: drich@sandman.lerc.nasa.gov (Daniel Rich)
Subject: Re: user defined headers
References: <MSANGHVI.92Jul30155714@cs.ulowell.edu>
>>>>> On Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:57:14 GMT, msanghvi@cs.ulowell.edu (Mehul Sanghvi) said:
Mehul>    i wanted to know if it is possible in VM to have user
Mehul> defined headers that get loaded up automatically. ELM does this
Mehul> by having the specified headers kept in a file called
Mehul> ~/.elm/elmheaders which get added to the normal headers. the
Mehul> user defined headers do not show up while you are composing
Mehul> the message.

I use the following code to add Priority: and Action: to my VM
displayed headers.  This code is in the function called by
vm-mode-hooks.

  (defun append-list (list item)
    (if (eq (car list) nil)
	(if (listp item)
	    (setq new-list item)
	  (setq new-list (list item)))
      (append-list (cdr list) item)
      (setq new-list (cons (car list) new-list))))
  (setq vm-visible-headers 
	(append-list vm-visible-headers '("Priority:" "Action:")))

Just change the list of headers in the last line to contain the
headers you wish displayed.  The append-list function just adds the
list of headers onto the end of the list given.  I couldn't find one
of these anywhere in the emacs/VM source so I wrote my own.
 
Mehul> also is there a way to encrypt a message in VM?? yes this is
Mehul> another ELM feature. the reason i am changing over to VM is
Mehul> that it is so much of a lesser pain to just switch buffers to
Mehul> check mail.

That is a good question.  I haven't tried to do that one yet...

-- 
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Sr. Systems Engineer        | "Danger, you haven't seen the last of me!"
RMS Technologies, Inc.      |    "No, but the first of you turns my stomach!"
NASA Lewis Research Center  | -- The Firesign Theatre's Nick Danger
From: joshua5@csa.bu.edu (Jim Peters)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
Subject: Re: Telling VM-mail to use mh mailing functions
Date: 29 Jul 92 02:44:12 GMT
Reply-To: joshua5@cs.bu.edu
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Boston Univ., Computer Science
In-reply-to: kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net's message of 28 Jul 92 17:09:37 GMT

In article <9207281709.AA00515@wendy-fate.UU.NET> kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net (Kyle Jones) writes:

   I (Jim Peters) originally wrote:
    > How do I reconfigure VM to use the MH "send" or "post" instead of
    > /usr/lib/sendmail?  

   Kyle wrote:

   You'll have to modify some VM code and some Emacs Mail mode code.
   Even though there's a variable sendmail-program, Emacs (and VM)
   still assume the program will take sendmail's command line flags,
   so a simple variable change won't be enough.

 I think I have found an acceptable solution:

(load-file "~/gnu/emacs/lisp/mailpost.el")
(setq send-mail-function 'post-mail-send-it)
(setq post-mail-program "/usr/local/lib/mh/post")

So far it works in my environment (SUN 4.1.1 sun3's and 4's with a mmdf
format) 

BTW, what is the lastest available version of VM ?  5.34 from uunet seems
to have a broken makefile.

					-- Jim Peters
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
From: msanghvi@cs.ulowell.edu (Mehul Sanghvi)
Subject: aliases
Reply-To: msanghvi@cs.ulowell.edu
Organization: UMass-Lowell CS Dept.
Distribution: gnu
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:19:08 GMT


h1 folks!!

  can you have aliases in VM the way you do in mail(1) or ELM??? i have kinda
gotten used to using aliases and was trying to make life easier with VM.

all pointers appreciated.

thanks

peace

--
===============================================================================
Mehul "raja lakhan" Sanghvi    | University of Massachusets at Lowell, CS Dept.
Inet: msanghvi@cs.ulowell.edu  | US Mail:  754 Aiken St. #11
UUCP: harvard!ulowell!msanghvi |           Lowell, MA. 01850-1804
From: mani@aix.Berkeley.EDU (Mani Varadarajan)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
Subject: gnu.emacs.vm.info
Date: 27 Jul 92 15:13:43
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Reply-To: mani@sprite.Berkeley.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: aix.berkeley.edu


I'd like to know if there's a way to prevent
VM from beeping every time I hit the end or the
beginning of a folder.  I don't want to disable
all my Emacs beeps, naturally, but only those
that are triggered by VM (or a subset of those).
Is this possible?

Mani Varadarajan
mani@sprite.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
From: Eyvind Ness <eyvind.ness@hrp.no>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 14:07 GMT
Reply-To: Eyvind.Ness@HRP.No
Subject: vm-finger.el
X-Mailer: GNU Emacs 18.58.20 with VM 5.21 (beta)
From: joshua5@csa.bu.edu (Jim Peters)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
Subject: Telling VM-mail to use mh mailing functions
Date: 28 Jul 92 16:35:59 GMT
Reply-To: joshua5@cs.bu.edu
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Boston Univ., Computer Science

How do I reconfigure VM to use the MH "send" or "post" instead of
/usr/lib/sendmail?  

I am not sure I am going down the right path but redefining the variable
send-mail-function to be 'mh-send has not worked.  Likewise, redefining the
variable sendmail-program to "/usr/local/bin/send" has not worked.  

I am just starting to look at the lisp code for VM and would appreciate any
help to point me in the right direction.  

					Thanks,

					Jim Peters
					(joshua5@cs.bu.edu)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
From: spot@CS.CMU.EDU (Scott Draves)
Subject: Re: VM and big folders
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 18:55:28 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
	<9207171439.AA04282@wendy-fate.UU.NET>
Originator: spot@COBOL.FOX.CS.CMU.EDU

>>>>> On Fri, 17 Jul 92 10:39:20 -0400, kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net (Kyle Jones) said:

 > Kyle, have you ever considered making vm use the same scheme for
 > folders as MH uses?  Or is there a good reason to do it the way it is
 > done now?  Would it be hard to change vm to use MH folder scheme (one
 > file per message)?

Kyle> I hope to add MH folder capability someday.  It would be a major
Kyle> undertaking to add this feature to VM.


eek, i like it how it is.  i used to use mh, and switched to vm
primarily because it stored folders as one file.
-- 
			l2o
Scott Draves		gso
spot@cs.cmu.edu		ddn
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
From: msanghvi@cs.ulowell.edu (Mehul Sanghvi)
Subject: Re: more on aliases and other things
Reply-To: msanghvi@cs.ulowell.edu
Organization: UMass-Lowell CS Dept.
Distribution: gnu
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:39:24 GMT


#include <stdDisclaimer.h>

If someone, or maybe Richard himself, could post the info that was requested by
Richard i am sure there would be quiet a few people who would be more then 
interested in knowing that kinda info. (i know of one already :) )

peace

p.s. thanks again to all who sent me replies to my origianl post

--
===============================================================================
Mehul "raja lakhan" Sanghvi    | University of Massachusets at Lowell, CS Dept.
Inet: msanghvi@cs.ulowell.edu  | US Mail:  754 Aiken St. #11
UUCP: harvard!ulowell!msanghvi |           Lowell, MA. 01850-1804
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: lie6@ellis.uchicago.edu (Jonathan A. Lieberman)
Subject: How do you bind the arrow keys and backspace key?
Reply-To: lie6@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 20:28:54 GMT

THANKS IN ADVANCE!



-- 
____________________________________________________________________________
Copyright (c) 1992          | People demand freedom of speech to make up 
Jonathan Lieberman          | for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
lie6@midway.uchicago.edu    |                        -Kierkegaard
From: ryanr@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Richard Ryan)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: adding new functions
Date: 23 Jul 92 20:30:33 GMT
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523


Hi,

I'm trying to figure out add a new  function.
I tried putting the following in a file I've loaded
with load-file and I've also tried putting it in
the .emacs file.
(defun gt-indent-region ()
  (shell-command-on-region 4 "sed -e '/^\(.\)/s//> \1/'"))

Although I'm not very certain this would work, I can't even
try it out if I can't load it.  When I try executing it after
loading the file it's in I get a "No match" message.  I've
looked in the FAQ's, but I couldn't find this question there.
Funny, it seemed like an FAQ kind of thing to me.

Also, what I'm trying to do with this command is put a "> "
in the left margin.  If you've got a better function, please
send me a copy.

Thanks,
Richard.
..
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: neitzel@ips.cs.tu-bs.de (Martin Neitzel)
Subject: Re: How to use emacsclient??
Organization: Inst. f. Informatik, TU Braunschweig, FRG
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 08:58:10 GMT


>I'll point out that emacsclient doesn't require X11, it'll work under
>sunview or (i)Screen quite nicely.

And of course with any plain tty under a system providing BSD-style job
control:

Waiting for emacs...
^Z
%e  ...  ^X# ^Z %-
done.

						Martin
From: jls@ithaque.inria.fr (Jean-Luc Szpyrka)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Re: maple mode
Date: 28 Jul 92 13:10:45 GMT
Reply-To: jls@sophia.inria.fr
Organization: Inria Sophia Antipolis

I asked :
|> 
|> Has someone written a Maple mode and do you know where I could get it ?
|> 
|> Thanks in advance.
|> 

 Thank you to all who gave me an answer

 For those who are interested, a maple.el(.Z) file is available ot some ftp
 places.
 It was written in 1990 by Bruno Salvy (salvy@inria.inria.fr).
 I'm trying to modify it. If I improve it a lot, I will send it to this
 news-group.

 Here are the ftp places:

Host archive.cis.ohio-state.edu

    Location: /n/archive/0/extra-ftp/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/modes
           FILE -rw-rw-r--       8652  Jul 24 1990  maple.el.Z

Host faui43.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

    Location: /mounts/epix/epix/gnu/elisp-archive/modes
           FILE -r--r--r--       8652  Jul 24 1990  maple.el.Z

Host forwiss.uni-passau.de

    Location: /pub/unix/gnu/emacs/lisp/modes
           FILE -rw-rw-r--       8652  Feb 27 1991  maple.el.Z

Host ftp.uu.net

    Location: /languages/elisp/modes
           FILE -rw-r--r--       8652  Jul 23 1990  maple.el.Z

Host gatekeeper.dec.com

    Location: /.1/GNU/elisp-archive/modes
           FILE -r--r--r--       8652  Jun 22 09:39  maple.el.Z

Host iamsun.unibe.ch

    Location: /emacs
           FILE -rw-r--r--      19426  Nov 22 1990  maple.el
Host ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de

    Location: /pub/gnu/emacs_extras
           FILE -rw-r--r--       8652  Feb 25 16:17  maple.el.Z

Host isfs.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp

    Location: /GNU/emacs-lisp
           FILE -rw-rw-r--       8652  May 18 23:09  maple.el.Z

Host rs3.hrz.th-darmstadt.de

    Location: /pub/editors/GNU-Emacs/elisp-archive/modes
           FILE -rw-rw-r--       8652  Jul 24 1990  maple.el.Z

Host saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu

    Location: /gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/modes
           FILE -rw-rw-r--       8652  Jul 24 1990  maple.el.Z

Host src.doc.ic.ac.uk

    Location: /gnu/EmacsBits/elisp-archive/modes
           FILE -r--r--r--       8652  Jul 24 1990  maple.el.Z

Host toklab.ics.osaka-u.ac.jp

    Location: /elisp/library/mode/language
           FILE -rw-rw-r--       8652  Jul 27 1990  maple.el.Z


 --------------------------------------------------------------------
 Jean-luc Szpyrka
 Email:  jls@sophia.inria.fr			Tel: (33) 93 65 78 69
 --------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: joe@MsElectron.com (Joe Kelsey)
Subject: Re: Linking Emacs on ESIX System V 4.0.4 with X11R4 (Motif)
Keywords: ESIX SVR4 s-esix5r4.h 
Organization: Ms. Electron, Inc.
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 17:41:13 GMT


I have done more experimenting and found out even more interesting things.
Emacs runs just fine in ``terminal'' mode (almost!), but not under X.  One
major problem relates to running emacs in an Xterm window.  I suppose no one
noticed the problems yet since, if you have X, you might as well run Emacs in
its own window, but the problems seem to relate to problems with the SysVr4
pty implementation.  Apparantly, the Streams modules behave differently on the
``pts'' devices tahn on the other devices.  The major problems happen because
the c_cc structure still contains valid entries in most of the array elements,
such as VDSUSP, VSTOP, etc.  Also, SysVr4 uses the manifest constant VDSUSP
rather than V_DSUSP, as the current sysdep.c assumes.  Making some minor
adjustments in init_tty_modes() allows emacs to run in an xterm window for the
time being.

I talked to the Esix people and they said that the new GUI tape should arrive
at the dealers *soon* and that it includes some bug fixes to the general X
libraries required to support the IXI Desktop stuff.  I plan to wait for the
new tape and retry my installation then.  The person I talked to on the phone
ran 18.57 compiled under 4.0.3a on 4.0.4 with no problems, so if you upgraded
(instead of installing from scratch like me), no problems!  He also compiled
Emacs with gcc 1.40 rather than the ccs stuff.  I guess my next step involves
picking up either gcc 1.40 or maybe even 2.2.2 and see if I can get that
running.  Maybe gdb also so I don't have to suffer through sdb too much
longer...

I plan to post more as soon as I have more specifics.

/Joe
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: hollen@megatek.UUCP (Dion Hollenbeck)
Subject: What is emacs-client and server
Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 20:52:01 GMT


Have been following the thread about emacsclient and server and what
I would like to know is "What are these things and how are they used?"
I have used Info, looked in the printed manual, even grepped through
the entire info directory in the distribution and there is no mention
of these.  About the most I have been able to glean is from the source
to both that says the following:

/* The GNU Emacs edit server process is run as a subprocess of Emacs
   under control of the file lisp/server.el.
   This program accepts communication from client (program emacsclient.c)
   and passes their commands (consisting of keyboard characters)
   up to the Emacs which then executes them.  */

Even this does not tell me much.  Do I need to worry about it at all
since my Emacs works fine?  Is there some neat functionality or
speedup I am missing?

Inquiring minds want to know.

-- 
Dion Hollenbeck       UUCP: {uunet, ucsd, sun}!megatek!hollen
                      INTERNET:            hollen@megatek.com
Megatek Corporation  9645 Scranton Rd.  San Diego, Ca.  92121
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Re: Two ideas for implementing repeat-last-command
From: mike@inform.co.nz (Mike Williams)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 03:25:41 GMT
Organization: InForm Group, Wellington, New Zealand.
To: terry@santafe.edu


>>> On Thu, 23 Jul 92 21:11:35 MDT,
>>> "Terry" == terry@santafe.edu (Terry Jones) writes:

Terry> ... how do you 'pure' emacs folks do things like delete the text
Terry> from point to the place 3 slashes further on on the line?

  Erm, how about:
    C-u 3 M-z /

  (where M-z calls the function zap-to-char)

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