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Re: Linux & Emacs on wearable

From: Fredrick Ivan Knieper <>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 16:52:12 -0500 (CDT)

On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Jason Dufair wrote:

> I read on one of the MIT wearables pages that most wearable users 
> spend most of their time in emacs or other text editor.  As I think 
> about building a wearable where I'd use it mostly for notes, 
> names/phone numbers, to-do lists, and calendar, I wonder if people 
> are doing all of these things with freeform text.  Being a 
> client/server programmer, I cringe at the lack of structure this 
> would give me.  Does emacs allow for forms and data typing of some 
> sort?  How do people structure their data?

emacs (or at least my xemacs distribution) does have a forms mode.
unfortunately my Linux box wont get my mail anymore, so I have to read my
email from work, and dont have the related info page for the mode
available.  From memory, you create a "form control" document containing
the fields and types, and the mode loads the appropriate control document
for the file you open.

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