From: "Sébastien Kirche" <sebastien.kirche.no@spam.free.fr.invalid>
Subject: Re: Newbie: Copy&paste text from native application into emacs?
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:44:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2u0hwst8p.fsf@seki.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87psskkf86.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com
At 11:08 on Aug 11 2005, Pascal Bourguignon said :
> All wrong! (Sorry).
>
> Well, ctrl-y is correct, but it's written C-y in emacs-speak.
>
> cmd-w is Command-w = Apple-w = MS-Windows-w. Nothing to do with C-w
>
> Opt-w is Alt-w and has nothing to do with (Meta-w) M-w which can also
> be typed as ESC w. It's true that on keyboards lacking a Meta key, Alt
> is often mapped to Meta, but this is not necessarily the case.
>
> > If you are very new to Emacs, i suggest you to type "Ctrl-h" then
> > "t" :
>
> Write it: C-h t
Sorry Pascal, but i don't agree.
I am afraid that the terminology you use would be completely obscure and
unfamiliar to a Mac user who said himself that he is very new to Emacs.
With Mac, you talk about the Ctrl key, Option key and Command (or
"Apple") key.
You are right about the correct names for the keys and the usual way
emacs users describe the combos C- S- and M-, But i guess that the OP
could have asked then what means M- or Meta.
Once he will read the tutorial, I suppose it will be ok to use the
common terms.
--
Sébastien Kirche
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-11 9:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-11 6:56 Newbie: Copy&paste text from native application into emacs? francisrammeloo
2005-08-11 7:46 ` Friedrich Laher
2005-08-11 7:53 ` Sébastien Kirche
2005-08-11 9:14 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2005-08-11 9:44 ` Sébastien Kirche [this message]
2005-08-11 11:16 ` francisrammeloo
2005-08-11 7:54 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2005-08-11 16:49 ` Drew Adams
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2005-08-11 15:56 David Reitter
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