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> I want an editor in which the carriage return key is _only_ a cursor
> positioning key.  No matter what 'mode' the editor is in, I want the carriage
> control key to put the cursor at the beginning of the next line - and
> _most_especially_NOT_ insert a new line or split the line I was on!
> Does gnuemacs do that (without me having to rewrite the keyboard driver or
> assign a macro to the carriage return key or something)?

Associating functionality with the insertion of a newline (e.g, the automatic
justification, indentation, etc.) can save a lot of editing time in the long
run.  However, I agree that often, one simply wants to insert a newline.  For
the modes I use most often in GNU Emacs, I bind [RET] to insert a newline with
all the bells and whistles, and [LFD] to insert a raw newline.

(As a side point, most extension languages are not macro languages.  Macros are
provided as a way to make fast, primitive, interactive extensions, but they are
not the typical modus operandi in the editor machine.  Modern editor extension
languages are really full-blown languages and should be treated as such.)

I took a whack at automating the process, but found the number of breeches in
standard nomenclature and coding practices reduced the function to a poor
heuristic.  Load the file of lisp if necessary (using require or load), and
rebind the keys (using define-key).

Regards, [Ag] gaynor@rutgers.edu