newbie: wordstar keybindings on AuCTeX

newbie: wordstar keybindings on AuCTeX

[Luis Rivera]

Hello,

I'm a rookie on this emacs thing, and I got sucked into it by AuCTeX.
Now, I'd like to know if someone has an .el file binding keys to good
old WordStar sequences that work right inside AuCTeX, and may want to
share; otherwise, I'd like to get instructions on either how to load
the ws-mode.el from within AuCTeX, or else how to load only the
keybindings from ws-mode, without loading the mode. As you may guess,
my first word-processor was WordStar ;-)

Thanks in advance,

Luis.

Re: newbie: wordstar keybindings on AuCTeX

[David Kastrup]

"Luis Rivera" <jlrn77@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm a rookie on this emacs thing, and I got sucked into it by
> AuCTeX.  Now, I'd like to know if someone has an .el file binding
> keys to good old WordStar sequences that work right inside AuCTeX,
> and may want to share; otherwise, I'd like to get instructions on
> either how to load the ws-mode.el from within AuCTeX, or else how to
> load only the keybindings from ws-mode, without loading the mode.

Both wordstar-mode and AUCTeX are major modes, you can't have both at
once.  Seems like the Wordstar aficionados were not interested enough
to aim for a pervasive blending of Emacs and Wordstar like the vi fans
did with viper-mode.

> As you may guess, my first word-processor was WordStar ;-)

So was mine.  I patched the escape sequences for addressing my
self-written terminal emulator into the binary with the help of a
debugger.  That was actually the regular and documented way:
configuration programs where you could just enter your terminal's
escape sequences interactively were invented only later.  Computer
literacy expectations from a computer user at that time were somewhat
different than they are nowadays.

Nevertheless, I got used to using vi, vile, elvis, MicroEmacs, Emacs
and a few other editors in due time.

"Everlasting love" is an ideal even more illusionary in computing than
in romance.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: newbie: wordstar keybindings on AuCTeX

[Luis Rivera]

David Kastrup wrote:
>
> Both wordstar-mode and AUCTeX are major modes, you can't have both at
> once.

David: I know both are major modes; my question is whether someone has
written a series of macros to overrule AUCTeX's default key bindings
and make WordStar/Borland assignments; or else some guidance on either
how to turn the ws major mode into a minor mode, or how to save new key
bindings into an elisp file for future reuse. (If it is possible to
load them at start up, much better!)

> [snip] I patched the escape sequences for addressing my
> self-written terminal emulator into the binary with the help of a
> debugger.  That was actually the regular and documented way:
> configuration programs where you could just enter your terminal's
> escape sequences interactively were invented only later.  Computer
> literacy expectations from a computer user at that time were somewhat
> different than they are nowadays.

I remember those days; I even remember my school assignments written
*on a typewriter*. Compared to nowaday's computer-addiction it was
really hard, but reliable...

> "Everlasting love" is an ideal even more illusionary in computing than
> in romance.

... perhaps not in typing. I keep my old Olivetti. The most reliable
document preparation system I ever tried!

Cheers!

Luis.