From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Corneli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs for everything? Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:41:26 -0600 Message-ID: References: <4jdgnc.36.ln@acm.acm> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1100817732 1210 80.91.229.6 (18 Nov 2004 22:42:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:42:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 18 23:42:03 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CUuyZ-00062b-00 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:42:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CUv7R-0001bg-1J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:51:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CUv79-0001WD-Vw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:50:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CUv76-0001Te-Jp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:50:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CUv76-0001St-GZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:50:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [146.6.139.124] (helo=dell3.ma.utexas.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CUuxz-0007qf-UP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:41:28 -0500 Original-Received: from linux183.ma.utexas.edu (mail@linux183.ma.utexas.edu [146.6.139.172]) by dell3.ma.utexas.edu (8.11.0.Beta3/8.10.2) with ESMTP id iAIMfQ822594; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:41:26 -0600 Original-Received: from jcorneli by linux183.ma.utexas.edu with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CUuxy-00014r-00; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:41:26 -0600 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Alan Mackenzie on Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:42:42 +0000) X-all-your-base-are-belong-to-us: You are on the way to destruction. X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:22134 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:22134 > .... and if you have all of those on the terminal, I assume that some > are just cheap simulations. Cheap simulations? How dare you, sir! Because you _can_ simulate them under emacs. However the result is not as convenient as the real thing. No, I've got C and M, but not H, s, or A. Haven't got enough keys on my keyboard for these, Sometimes you must be willing to cannibalize. I cannibalized the number row and just type numbers with an embedded keypad. and I'm not sure I've got enough commands I'd want to bind to them, anyway. Maybe I could use one of the modifiers to take the place of C-x or C-c, thus saving keystrokes. Is that what you use them for? Not exactly, though that's the rough idea. The X modifiers are a throwback to the space cadet keyboard. Good for typing mathematical text, for example. If there were a couple more modifiers I'd be even happier. By the way, what does `T' stand for? Just itself.