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1.1     ! root        1: .TH MHE
        !             2: .SH NAME
        !             3: mhe \- Display interface to Rand Mail Handler
        !             4: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !             5: .I MHE
        !             6: is a program that provides an Emacs-based display-oriented front end to the
        !             7: Rand Mail Handler. By Emacs-based we mean that it is actually implemented as
        !             8: an extensive macro package in Emacs, thereby providing access to full Emacs
        !             9: at all points. By display-oriented, we mean that it provides windows on mail
        !            10: messages and headers so that you can edit your mail directory as if it were
        !            11: a file.
        !            12: .PP
        !            13: To get started using \fIMHE\fR without being an expert at \fIMH\fR, just
        !            14: type ``mhe'' to the shell. It will start up Emacs, load the macro package,
        !            15: tell you how to initialize things if you have not already done so, and then
        !            16: (assuming things are initialized properly) load your inbox headers into its
        !            17: current window in a buffer named ``+inbox''. You can then type various
        !            18: 1-character commands to do mail operations. The ``?'' command asks for help.
        !            19: .PP
        !            20: If you want to use the Emacs that is inside \fIMHE\fR, just visit a file
        !            21: with C-X C-V, in the normal way. If you want to return to the \fIMHE\fR
        !            22: code, just make the buffer ``+inbox'' visible again; the key bindings are
        !            23: buffer-local, and will magically return to their mail-reading meanings.
        !            24: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            25: .nf
        !            26: .ta 1.5i
        !            27: mh (1) - the Rand Mail Handler
        !            28: .SH AUTHOR
        !            29: Brian K. Reid
        !            30: .SH BUGS
        !            31: There is a fundamental design bug in the Unix kernel that prevents more than
        !            32: one Emacs process from being able to run at a time. \fIMHE\fR is implemented
        !            33: in Emacs. This means that you cannot have a mail-reading job and an editing
        !            34: job active simultaneously. However, since you have access to all of Emacs
        !            35: while inside \fIMHE\fR, this is not a serious problem.

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