Misbehavior in Jove
Sean Kamath
kamath at reed.UUCP
Sat Jun 18 03:56:46 AEST 1988
In article <1618 at iscuva.ISCS.COM> jimc at iscuva.ISCS.COM (Jim Cathey) writes:
>>[mention of ^N giving newlines, when could be better used.]
>
>Hear hear! I've always hated that feature, and since I'm the one who
>installed GNU Emacs here I took it out completely! Local standards by fiat!
Have you folks ever heard of bind-to-key? If you don't like ^N giving you
newlines at the end of the file, then bind it to something else! I have
mine bound to next-line. So type "ESC X bind-to-key end-of-file ^N" and be
done with it. That's why Emacs is called Emacs -- editing macros. You can
create your own macros, and bind those to keys, too.
>On an unrelated issue... Is anyone else disgusted by the misuse of the
>term 'meta' in the microemacsen? It looks like they just did a global-
>search-and-replace of Meta for ESC! (Leading to such silliness as "...press
>the Meta key to stop the search.")
The meta-key is also bindable. There is a variable called meta-key, which,
when on, allows the use of a real meta key. But if you want, you can bind
'`' to meta, as a *lot* of macintosh users have done. . .
>! II CCCCCC ! Jim Cathey
Sean Kamath
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