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Re: Making Word feel like emacs?

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From: Gilbert Harman
Date: Thu, 04 May 1989 14:51
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In article <5557@brunix.UUCP> cs004004@brunix (Jon Feinberg) writes:
>  In article <GHH.89May2195941@clarity.princeton.edu>
>   ghh@clarity.princeton.edu (Gilbert Harman) writes:
>  >Is there a macro key package that could be used to put emacs
>  >commands into Word (4)?  E.g. <escape>-f would go forward
>  >one word, ^x^c would quit, etc.  In other words, what's
>  >needed is the ability to assign a macro not just to a single
>  >(possibly modified with the command, option, and/or shift
>  >keys) but to a sequence, like ^x^c.
>  I think QuicKeys will allow you to do just that, through a combination
>  of aliases and sequences. (Keep in mind that Word has its own
>  lovely set of keyboard macros, like command-right arrow for forward
>  one word, but if you're addicted to E-macs...)
>  I use the mouse less and less nowadays, thanks to 
>  Quickeys. It's wunnerful.
>  [Just a satisfied customer, as they say.]

>  >Can this sort of thing be done in NISUS?
>  Don't know...

I don't see how to use Quickeys to get a SEQUENCE of
(possibly modified) keystrokes to stand for a command, e.g.
<escape> followed by f to stand for the command "move
forward one word."  Is there a way to use Quickeys or some
other system to bind a key like <escape> to a complex
conditional command: "Press a key, if it is "f" then go
forward a word, if it is "b" then go back a word, ..."?


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		       Gilbert Harman
                       Princeton University Cognitive Science Laboratory
	               221 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08542
			      
		       ghh@princeton.edu
		       HARMAN@PUCC.BITNET
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From: ghh@thought.princeton.edu (Gilbert Harman)
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Subject: Re: Making Word feel like emacs?
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