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	< > Searching and Replacing	< > Advanced Text Editing

	< > Regions			< > Formating Your Text

	< > Cutting and Pasting		< > Getting at Files

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	< > 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
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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


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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.



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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.


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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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    < > 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.

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