19 Nov
2018
19 Nov
'18
4:02 a.m.
On 11/17/18 10:39 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
It's not clear how widespread this is, but on my Mac OS X system, emacs
key bindings are pervasive. TextEdit, text controls in apps and browsers,
pretty much everything understands the basic emacs keybinding.
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``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
From: Lars
Brinkhoff
Emacs is very much divorced from the Unix
philosopy. However, it's
perfectly in synch with how things are done in ITS.
Hmm. It is complicated, but... the vast majority of my keystrokes are typed
into Epsilon (a wonderful, small, fast EMACS-type editor for Windows, etc
which one can customize in C) - especially since I started, very early on (V6)
to run my shell in an EMACS window, so I could edit commands, and thus I was
pretty much always typing to EMACS. So, it makes sense to me to have it be
powerful - albeit potentially a bit complex.
I say 'potentially' because one could after all restrict oneself to the 4
basic motion commands, and 'delete character'; you don't have to learn
what
CRTL-ALT-SHIFT-Q does.