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-.TH XEMACS 1 "1996 June 23"
+.TH XEMACS 1 "1996 November 23"
 .UC 4
 .SH NAME
 xemacs \- Emacs: The Next Generation
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B xemacs
 The primary documentation of
 .I XEmacs
 is in the
 .I XEmacs Reference
 .IR Manual ,
-which you can read on line using Info, a subsystem of
+which you can read on-line using Info, a subsystem of
 .IR XEmacs .
 Please look there for complete and up-to-date documentation.
 Complete documentation on using Emacs Lisp is available on-line
 through the
 .I XEmacs Lisp Programmer's
 in a few minutes.
 Help Apropos (CTRL-h a) helps you
 find a command given its functionality, Help Key Binding (CTRL-h k)
 describes a given key sequence's effect, and Help Function (CTRL-h f)
 describes a given Lisp function specified by name.  You can also
-lookup key sequences in the
+look up key sequences in the
 .I XEmacs Reference Manual
 using Lookup Key Binding (CTRL-h CTRL-k),
-and lookup Lisp functions in the
+and look up Lisp functions in the
 .I XEmacs Lisp Programmer's Manual
 using Lookup Function (CTRL-h CTRL-f).  All of these help functions,
 and more, are available on the Help menu if you are using a window
 system.
 .PP
 (Font-Lock), compiling (Compile), running subshells within
 .I XEmacs
 windows (Shell), outline editing (Outline), running a Lisp read-eval-print
 loop (Lisp-Interaction-Mode), and automated psychotherapy (Doctor).
 .PP
-There is an extensive reference manual, but
+There is an extensive reference manual, but users of other Emacsen
-users of other Emacsen
+should have little trouble adapting even without a copy.  Users new to
-should have little trouble adapting even
+Emacs will be able to use basic features fairly rapidly by studying
-without a copy.  Users new to Emacs will be able
+the tutorial and using the self-documentation features.
-to use basic features fairly rapidly by studying the tutorial and
-using the self-documentation features.
 .PP
 .SM XEmacs Options
 .PP
-The following options are processed in the order encountered:
+XEmacs accepts all standard X Toolkit command line options when run in
-.TP 8
+an X Windows environment.  In addition, the following options are accepted
-.I file
+(when options imply a sequence of actions to perform, they are
-Edit
+performed in the order encountered):
-.IR file \.
-.TP
-.BI \+ number
-Go to the line specified by
-.I number
-(do not insert a space between the "+" sign and
-the number).
-.TP
-.B \-help
-Print a help message and exit.
-.TP
-.B \-version
-Print the version number and exit.
-.TP
-.BI \-f " function, " \-funcall " function"
-Execute the lisp function
-.IR function \.
-.TP
-.BI \-l " file, " \-load " file"
-Load the Lisp code in the file
-.IR file \.
-.TP
-.BI \-eval " form"
-Evaluate the Lisp form
-.IR form \.
-.TP
-.BI \-insert " file"
-Insert
-.I file
-into the current buffer.
-.TP
-.B \-kill
-Exit
-.I XEmacs
-(useful with
-.BR \-batch ).
-.PP
-These options are processed only if they appear before all other
-options (and generally must be in the order given):
 .TP 8
 .BI \-t " file"
 Use specified
 .I file
 as the terminal instead of using stdin/stdout.  This implies
 .BR \-f ,
 and
 .B \-eval
 options to specify files to execute and functions to call.
 .TP
-.B \-nw
+.B \-nw\
 Inhibit the use of any window-system-specific display code: use the
-current TTY.  This must be the first argument specified in the
+current TTY.
-command line.
 .TP
 .B \-debug\-init
-Enter the debugger if an error occurs in the init file.
+Enter the debugger if an error occurs loading the init file.
 .TP
 .B \-unmapped
 Do not map the initial frame.
 .TP
 .B \-no\-site\-file
 .TP
 .BI \-u " user, " \-user " user"
 Load
 .IR user 's
 init file.
+.TP 8
+.I file
+Edit
+.IR file \.
+.TP
+.BI \+ number
+Go to the line specified by
+.I number
+(do not insert a space between the "+" sign and the number).
+.TP
+.B \-help, \-flags, \-?
+Print a help message and exit.
+.TP
+.B \-V, \-version,
+Print the version number and exit.
+.TP
+.BI \-f " function, " \-funcall " function"
+Execute the lisp function
+.IR function \.
+.TP
+.BI \-l " file, " \-load " file"
+Load the Lisp code in the file
+.IR file \.
+.TP
+.BI \-eval " form"
+Evaluate the Lisp form
+.IR form \.
+.TP
+.BI \-i " file, " \-insert " file"
+Insert
+.I file
+into the current buffer.
+.TP
+.B \-kill
+Exit
+.I XEmacs
+(useful with
+.BR \-batch ).
 .PP
 .SM Using XEmacs with X
 .PP
 .I XEmacs
 has been tailored to work well with the X window system.
 display in.  You will probably want to start the editor
 as a background process
 so that you can continue using your original window.
 .PP
 .I XEmacs
-can be started with the following X switches:
+can be started with the following standard X options:
 .TP
 .BI \-geometry " ##x##+##+##"
 Specify the geometry of the initial window.  The ##'s represent a number;
 the four numbers are width (characters), height (characters), X offset
 (pixels), and Y offset (pixels), respectively.  Partial specifications of
 .ti -\w'CTRL-SHIFT-middle'u+4n
 CTRL-SHIFT-left	Make a selection, delete it, and insert it at point.
 .br
 .ti -\w'CTRL-SHIFT-middle'u+4n
 META-left	Make a rectangular selection.
-.PP
 .SH FILES
+Lisp code is read at startup from the user's init file,
+\fB$HOME/.emacs\fP.
 /usr/local/info - files for the Info documentation browser
 (a subsystem of
 .IR XEmacs )
 to refer to.  The complete text of the
 .I XEmacs Reference Manual
 /usr/local/lib/xemacs-$VERSION/$CONFIGURATION - various programs that are used
 with XEmacs.
 /usr/local/lib/xemacs-$VERSION/$CONFIGURATION/DOC-$VERSION-XEmacs -
 contains the documentation strings for the Lisp primitives and
-preloaded Lisp functions of
+preloaded Lisp functions of \fIXEmacs\fP.
-.IR XEmacs \.
+They are stored here to reduce the size of \fIXEmacs\fP proper.
-They are stored here to reduce the size of
-.I XEmacs
-proper.
 .br
 /usr/local/lib/xemacs-$VERSION/etc/SERVICE - lists people offering
-various services to assist users of
+various services to assist users of \fIXEmacs\fP,
-.IR XEmacs ,
 including education, troubleshooting, porting and customization.
 /usr/local/lib/xemacs/lock - holds lock files that are made for all
 files being modified in
 .IR XEmacs ,
 .SH AUTHORS
 .PP
 .I XEmacs
 was written by Chuck Thompson <cthomp@xemacs.org>, Ben Wing
 <wing@666.com>, Jamie Zawinski <jwz@netscape.com>, Richard Mlynarik
-<mly@adoc.xerox.com>, and many others.  It was based on an early
+<mly@adoc.xerox.com>, Martin Buchholz <mrb@eng.sun.com> and many
-version of
+others.  It was based on an early version of
 .I GNU Emacs Version
 .IR 19 ,
 written by Richard Stallman of the Free Software
 Foundation, and has tracked subsequent releases of
 .I GNU Emacs
 with
 .I GNU Emacs Version
 .IR 19 \.
 .PP
 Many others have also contributed significantly.  For more detailed
-information, including a long history of
+information, including a long history of \fIXEmacs\fP from multiple
-.I XEmacs
+viewpoints and pretty pictures and bios of the major \fIXEmacs\fP
-from multiple viewpoints and pretty pictures and bios of the major
-.I XEmacs
 contributors, see the
 .I XEmacs About Page
 (the About XEmacs option on the Help menu).
 .SH MORE INFORMATION
-For more information about
+For more information about \fIXEmacs\fP, see the
-.IR XEmacs ,
-see the
 .I XEmacs About Page
 (mentioned above),
 look in the file /usr/local/lib/xemacs-$VERSION/etc/NEWS,
 or point your Web browser at
 .PP
 http://www.xemacs.org/
 .PP
-for up-to-the-minute information about
+for up-to-the-minute information about \fIXEmacs\fP.
-.IR XEmacs \.
 .PP
 The
 .I XEmacs
 FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) can be found at the Web site just listed.
 A possibly out-of-date version is also accessible through the Info system
-inside of
+inside of \fIXEmacs\fP.
-.IR XEmacs \.
+.PP
-.PP
+The latest version of \fIXEmacs\fP can be downloaded using anonymous
-The latest version of
+FTP from
-.I XEmacs
-can be downloaded using anonymous FTP from
 .PP
 ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/
 .PP
 or from a mirror site near you.  Here is an approximate (possibly
 out-of-date) list of mirror sites:

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