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> Is MicroEmacs full featured compared to UNIX/Linux Emacs? Does it support LISP, shell, full macro recording?

I've not use Emacs, but I don't think it and MicroEmacs are very similar. MicroEmacs does not use Lisp as a scripting language (luckily). IIRC, MicroEmacs does use the ESC key to access ...

Back in my QHJ publishing days, I used MicroEmacs for creating the newsletter. It was portable in that MicroEmacs (3.X) on the QL ran similarly to 3.X on MS-DOS and the text files were quite portable. The syntax highlighting on 4.X is a nice feature for SuperBasic or C programming. MicroEmacs also ...

With the ZX81 and the T/S 2068, understanding the memory map is important, as there is little memory and you need to know how to use it best. On the QL, I've never really had to look at the memory map. When I had a BBQL, I just had to worry about the amount of memory, but not where things were ...

IIRC, Wolfang's "Basic Linker" has a SuperBasic parser in it. It can be found on Dilwyn's page at:

https://dilwyn.theqlforum.com/program/Basic_Linker.zip

Tim

> You MUST bother with line numbers, if you want to merge another S(uper)BASIC program to your main program

Not if all of your programs don't have any line numbers. If I want to use a procedure written by someone else, I will covert it to not have line numbers.

Also, I don't use MERGE, I use ...

> BTW: Has anyone tried to run my reflection toolkit with compiled code (IMHO NO chance with Turbo and most probably also not even with QLiberator).

I've not tried your toolkit, mostly because I don't care about line number with SuperBasic. I write all SuperBasic without line numbers and let my pre ...

Doug,

Glad to have you back QLing. As for floppy transfers, there is a number of tools on Dilwyn's website under the "File Transfer" link. Here are some examples:

QL Disk Reader - a DOS program which can read files from a QL floppy disk. A formerly commercial program from Utility Room. (10K) [19 ...

DLINE - I knew there was a command but I forgot about it. It's been so long since I've used the built-in SB editor.

Tim

To delete line 100, just type "100" and hit enter. It will blank out that line. To do a large block, just save the program, open it with a text editor and delete the lines there.

Tim

Dilwyn has a page with information like this:

https://dilwyn.theqlforum.com/gen/backt ... ktoql.html

See if it is useful.

Tim