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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.new-york.net!nonexistent.com!not-for-mail From: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> Subject: Re: Emacs META? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: Email abuse@news2.new-york.net if this posting is inappropriate Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Senate Industries Message-ID: <ECC585.4oG@nonexistent.com> References: <5oh1va$mcq@lace.colorado.edu> <5oo2nq$l3k@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> <5oottb$pb3@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> <5op14o$fr3@fridge-nf0.shore.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: 867248498 5401 nathan [204.141.125.38] X-Nntp-Posting-Host: senate.org Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 14:21:39 GMT Lines: 26 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43511 Nathan V. Patwardhan wrote: > > Brian Somers (brian@shift.utell.net) wrote: > > : 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. > > Oh! Then the answer is, "no, what I'm doing is not disastrous because > I'm not re-defining existing keys like C-f." I only create shortcuts > for key combos that are not already defined. Perhaps I should be been > more clear in my original posting about re-defining. > > -- > Nathan V. Patwardhan > nvp@shore.net Blarney. I keep all the "can't live without" configuration files on a floppy disk. If I move to a system where they're not present, I just pop it in. -- ##################### For PGP key, telnet senate.org 5000 # Nathan Dorfman # or finger nathan@senate.org # Senate Industries # /'-- www.senate.org | ftp.senate.org -- `\ ##################### \________________________________________/