From: Al Chou (Al_Chou@cyberdude.com)
Date: 29 Aug 99, 06:13 EST
From: Al Chou <Al_Chou@cyberdude.com>
Subject: Re: Off-topic Emacs Talk (Was: Re: Undo across saves)
>>>>>> "Al" == Al Chou <Al_Chou@CYBERDUDE.COM> writes:
>
>
>Al> Not to be snide, but wasn't "undo" (C-_ or C-x u) or "yank"
>Al> (C-y) enough to retrieve what you had just killed?
>
>Of course it was, but ten years ago, when I first started using
>Emacs, Emacs didn't tell you about key bindings for functions you
>invoked with M-x. Since I found having my work disappear rather
>startling, I thought it might be nice to know what keys I'd
>accidentally pressed in order to avoid pressing them in the
>future.
Ah, that makes sense.
>Al> I realize that the syntax for binding keys in Emacs isn't as
>Al> clear as it is in Alpha, but those functions could be bound
>Al> to the key combinations you like, thus saving a lot of
>Al> extraneous typing.
>
>Actually, I think it's far easier to bind keys in Emacs than in
>Alpha. For one thing, you know what you're binding because you
>state it up front, instead of specifying a bunch of modifiers
>that don't correspond in any obvious way to the keys they
>represent. Compare:
>
>Alpha Emacs
>=========================== ============================================
>Bind 0x33 backSpace (global-set-key [DEL] 'delete-backward-char)
>Bind 'T' <zoc> twiddleWords (global-set-key "M-t" 'transpose-words)
>Bind 'T' <zc> twiddle (global-set-key "C-t" 'transpose-chars)
I was just pointing out that instead of typing out the M-x function names,
you could bind them to keys. But obviously you already knew that. <g>
>(That's all I'm going to say on the language war front. If you
>want more, check out <http://icemcfd.com/tcl/comparison.html>,
>which seems to cover pretty much all of the bases you can
>imagine.)
Thanks for the tip. :)
> I don't want to read it on the Web. I don't like using computers.
> -- Third-year computing science student on the first day of class.
>+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
> C.M. Connelly c@eskimo.com SHC, DS
Bloody scary quote....
Al
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