From: Al Chou (Al_Chou@cyberdude.com)
Date: 28 Aug 99, 11:27 EST
From: Al Chou <Al_Chou@cyberdude.com>
Subject: Re: Undo across saves
> One feature that Emacs has that I
> sometimes find useful is that it stores a list of the last 100
> keystrokes you have made, accessible with C-h l or M-x
> view-lossage. (I found this function handy when I
> accidentally hit C-w, a wonderful key combination bound to
> `kill-region' which I hadn't been aware of. It's somewhat
> unnerving to have half your file disappear!)
Not to be snide, but wasn't "undo" (C-_ or C-x u) or "yank" (C-y) enough to
retrieve what you had just killed?
>(Also, I have to say that going back to Emacs from Alpha hasn't
>been as easy as it might have been -- there are a lot of nice
>features in Alpha that Emacs either doesn't have, or doesn't have
>implemented in a friendly way (e.g., typing M-x fixup-whitespace
>instead of C-delete, typing M-x goto-line instead of Opt-L (Opt
>and Command are both currently bound to Meta, which I *must* fix,
>since I use Escape for Meta...)). I tried Vince's TCL port, but
>it didn't work at all (at least partly due to the version of
>TCL/Tk on the system, I think), and I haven't had time to try it
>again.)
>
> Claire M. Connelly c@eskimo.com SHC, DS
I realize that the syntax for binding keys in Emacs isn't as clear as it is
in Alpha, but those functions could be bound to the key combinations you
like, thus saving a lot of extraneous typing.
Al
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