From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to type when using Emacs? Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:03:34 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <95d5e9bf-cb7f-4e00-8054-d1c24dfbb330@y19g2000prn.googlegroups.com> References: <8763rcm4np.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218310903 12576 80.91.229.12 (9 Aug 2008 19:41:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 19:41:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 09 21:42:35 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KRuKU-00053S-O7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:42:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33168 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRuJZ-00037o-2n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:41:25 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!y19g2000prn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.97.120 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1218308614 29737 127.0.0.1 (9 Aug 2008 19:03:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 19:03:34 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: y19g2000prn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.97.120; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.22, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:161028 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:56375 Archived-At: On Aug 9, 8:07 am, dkco...@panix.com (David Combs) wrote: > In article <8763rcm4np....@sophokles.streitblatt.de>, > Florian Beck wrote: > ... > > > > >Finally, if you are using X, you should definitely make your keyboard > >use ALT, SUPER, HYPER and COMPOSE. (Probably not for editing, though, I > >use ALT for =C2=BBviewing=C2=AB (e.g. ALT-u outline-up-heading), SUPER f= or > >rearranging (transposing paragraphs) and reserve HYPER for my window > >manager). > > I try to stay away from windows and use primarily > a sun and solaris. And emacs, of course. > > Now, you talk about ALT, SUPER, HYPER, and COMPOSE. > > For emacs, what do you use those keys for? Those came from lisp machine's keyboard. For a detail explanation and photos of lisp keyboards, see: Why Emacs's Keyboard Shortcuts Are Painful http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_kb_shortcuts_pain.html > (What are they "supposed" to be used for -- that is, > maybe, what acts or intentions gave them those names?) For a explanation on how these Hyper, Super keys were used, see Rainer' article at: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/3b3dcdc52f507b02 Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84