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Article #1752Re: Re: EMACS for Macintosh
From: Thomas Newton
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1985 02:30
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1985 02:30
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I would be willing to pay $10 for an EMACS mode for WORD. Preferably, the
keyboard bindings should be similar to the bindings in Unix (Gosling) EMACS.
Definitely such basic features as cursor movement (beginning-of-line, next-
line, forward-character, next-page, previous-page, etc.), repeat counts (^U),
deletion, and insertion of killed text should be implemented. I don't really
expect programmability -- a programmable editor would probably work better as
a stand-alone program, and would be worth more than $10. The ability to rebind
key mappings either on-the-fly or via an initialization file would be nice.
Also, extra key bindings to access WORD's formatting functions (which EMACS,
being just a text editor, doesn't have) would be nice.
The Mac keyboard doesn't have an ESC key, but this problem can be solved by
adopting the MacTerminal standard: "~/`" = ESC, COMMAND-"~/`" = "`", and
SHIFT-COMMAND-"~/`" = "~".
-- Thomas Newton
Thomas.Newton@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cmu-cs-spice.ARPA Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cmu-cs-spice!tdn From: tdn@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA (Thomas Newton) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Re: EMACS for Macintosh Message-ID: <381@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA> Date: Fri, 14-Jun-85 22:30:24 EDT Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-s.381 Posted: Fri Jun 14 22:30:24 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 17-Jun-85 03:45:08 EDT Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 17