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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Emacs META?
Date: 24 Jun 1997 16:50:51 GMT
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In article <5ooicg$snu@fridge-nf0.shore.net>,
nvp@shore.net (Nathan V. Patwardhan) writes:
> Brian Somers (brian@shift.utell.net) wrote:
>
>: I think this is disasterous. You end up being able to do loads
>: of wonderful things at your local site, but being unable to use
>: emacs on other machines.
>
> How so? I don't see how a binding like:
> (global-set-key "\C-cg" 'goto-line)
> in my .emacs file will bring the world to a crashing halt.
>
> Or maybe you thought I was referring to something else, in which case
> the answer is, "no, I'm not doing that..." :-)
For example, years ago when I first used emacs, I decided that the
arrow keys were fine for going forwards and backwards, and defined
C-f to be isearch-regex-forward and C-b to be forward-sexp. I
also put the start/end/run macro keys on function keys.
When I moved, I suddenly didn't know how to define macros or do
brace matches. There was loads of other stuff too. It just
confused me so much that I'll stick to the default keys in future.
> --
> Nathan V. Patwardhan
> nvp@shore.net
>
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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