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how to try emacs19

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (brlewis@MIT.EDU)
Mon Feb 21 13:18:22 1994

From: brlewis@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 94 13:18:06 -0500
To: release-77@MIT.EDU

Put this line in your .path file:

	set path=($HOME/$bindir /mit/emacs19/$bindir $athena_path .)

Add this line to your .environment file:

	attach -n -q emacs19

Upon your next login, you should get emacs19 by default.  If you
explicitly use /usr/athena/bin/emacs in any of your dotfiles, you might
sometimes get the old version.  I suggest changing all instances of
/usr/athena/emacs or /usr/athena/bin/emacs in your dotfiles to just
emacs.

The biggest user-interface difficulty I have is that when you paste text
with the middle mouse button, it appears where the mouse cursor is
rather than where the text cursor is.

Some .emacs files will still work, but many will fail because of
changes:

	- old way of binding function keys (F1, F2, etc) won't work
	- old way of displaying high-bit chars won't work
	- eolcr won't start

IMHO, if we do make emacs19 the default emacs, we'll want to keep
emacs18 around on the older platforms to ease the transition.

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