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khera@cs.duke.edu (Vivek Khera) writes:

   In article <660@ctycal.UUCP> pat@ctycal.UUCP (Patrick Woo) writes:

      I am going through a growing pain of moving from Unipress Emacs to GNU
      emacs. Can someone out there send me a .emacspro (or is it .emacsrc ?)
      that will make gmacs emulate Unipress Emacs (in terms of keybinding).

   i went through this about three years ago.  i don't think i'll ever go
   back.  anyway, i still use the Unipress/Gosling key bindings. [...]

I switched to GNU a year and a half ago, after 5 years of intensive
use of UniPress.  It *is* a pain to switch, but it took me about a
month to forget the old bindings.  I strongly recommend learning the
new bindings unless you're willing (and good enough in elisp) to
modify every new package you get from the net.  The "standard" GNU
bindings are known by many "non-standard" packages and used to speed
up learning.  Moreover, there is (most of the time) a rationale behind
the construction of the GNU bindings.

An example:

DEL: delete character
M-DEL: delete word

I find ESC-DEL more intuitive than ESC-h (the UniPress way), because I
never used ^H to delete, I always used the DELETE key.

^H means 'help' in GNU.  Once you've figured out that BACKSPACE
doesn't mean DELETE, it's easy.  Easier than remembering whatever was
the help key in UniPress (Control-underscore, wasn't it?).

(Please, no flames about the BACKSPACE/DELETE key usage; it has been
debated to death).

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