Emacs key-binding
Ian Graham
igraham at SMAUG.PHYSICS.MCGILL.CA
Thu May 2 07:29:07 AEST 1991
Hi,
At the request of a user I recently installed emacs on our Irises, both
the ordinary terminal version and an X version. These work fine, but
the person doing most of the fiddling with it wants to do key binding to
make the whole thing more convenient: In his case he wants to do
key binding on the IRIS keyboard -- In particular he wants to bind things
like the page-down key, arrow keys, insert, delete, etc to their obvious
functions. The problem is -- no-one here knows how to do it, either within
emacs or X. It is not clear to me whether some of this should be done
in X when running an X-version of emacs (we are running 4-Sight, not X,
so by this I mean that xemacs just pops an X-window under 4-Sight -- does
this mean that X remaps the keyboard just for this window?)
Basically, there seem to me to be 3 ways to remap keys, none of which I
know how to do (having had no need):
1) NeWS -- fiddle something in user.ps (I don't know how to do this)
2) X11 -- fiddle something in .xinitrc? (I don't know how to do this)
3) emacs -- fiddle something else (" " " " " " " )
I also don't know how they interact with each other -- i.e. does emacs
remapping remap on top of a NeWS/X remapping, etc? And for our case which
remapping should we be doing, and how?
(If) these are stupid questions, please tell me/him where to RTFM -- I
have tried wading through some of this stuff, to no avail, and the
student playing with emacs has only indirect access to the IRIS manuals.
Thanks for all help,
Ian
___________________________________________ Ian Graham ______________
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