From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Scott Teresi (sent by Nabble.com)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How can I move my cursor 80 characters with a key binding? Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:53:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2091468.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <2089451.post@talk.nabble.com> <20051225062518.GD9520@setzer.hsd1.tx.comcast.net> Reply-To: Scott Teresi NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0403296110==" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135529690 17346 80.91.229.2 (25 Dec 2005 16:54:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 16:54:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 25 17:54:48 2005 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EqZ8t-0004fa-5q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 17:54:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EqZA2-0004Yx-VF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 11:55:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EqZ9F-00042M-IO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 11:55:05 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EqZ9C-00041N-JA for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 11:55:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EqZ9B-00041G-IB for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 11:55:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [72.21.53.35] (helo=talk.nabble.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1EqZ8r-0003OD-AE for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 11:54:41 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=talk.nabble.com) by talk.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EqZ7z-0000lv-D6 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:53:47 -0800 Original-To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <20051225062518.GD9520@setzer.hsd1.tx.comcast.net> X-Nabble-Sender: Nabble Forums X-Nabble-From: Scott Teresi 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:32222 Archived-At: --===============0403296110== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_902_7404696.1135529627401" ------=_Part_902_7404696.1135529627401 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Well, that's great! The built-in key combination is almost good enough, but I think I might need to do the custom key binding so that I can rapidly jump the cursor 80 characters, repeatedly. If I have a line that takes up 10 lines on the screen (a paragraph of text, for instance), and I need to get to the center of that paragraph, I'd have to jump forward several times to get there. (I think the key binding would be easier for me than trying to guess exactly how many characters to jump forward.) Does anyone know an easier way to cursor around a very long line? I'm pretty frustrated with how I can't simply hit the up arrow and move up to the previous line on the screen (which is actually part of the same very long line), but it's an improvement over PICO which always adds a carriage return at the edge of the screen. I use the Terminal program in Mac OS X which doesn't seem to allow mouse input. Thanks a lot for your help! Merry Christmas! Scott -- Sent from the Emacs - Help forum at Nabble.com: http://www.nabble.com/How-can-I-move-my-cursor-80-characters-with-a-key-binding--t803190.html#a2091468 ------=_Part_902_7404696.1135529627401 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Well, that's great! The built-in key combination is almost good enough, but I think I might need to do the custom key binding so that I can rapidly jump the cursor 80 characters, repeatedly. If I have a line that takes up 10 lines on the screen (a paragraph of text, for instance), and I need to get to the center of that paragraph, I'd have to jump forward several times to get there. (I think the key binding would be easier for me than trying to guess exactly how many characters to jump forward.)

Does anyone know an easier way to cursor around a very long line? I'm pretty frustrated with how I can't simply hit the up arrow and move up to the previous line on the screen (which is actually part of the same very long line), but it's an improvement over PICO which always adds a carriage return at the edge of the screen. I use the Terminal program in Mac OS X which doesn't seem to allow mouse input.

Thanks a lot for your help! Merry Christmas!

Scott
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