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From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Emacs user-interface problem. uEmacs 3.10.
Keywords: ^S ^Q
Message-ID: <1989Oct12.113550.27627@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 12 Oct 89 11:35:50 GMT
References: <6474@ficc.uu.net> <7759@cg-atla.UUCP>
Reply-To: rbp@investor.UUCP (Bob Peirce #305)
Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co.
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In article <7759@cg-atla.UUCP> fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith) writes:
>In article <6474@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>I'm sure there's a standard answer to this, but what is the canonical
>>binding for search and quote when ^S and ^Q are co-opted by software
>>handshaking? 
>
>Well, in the past I have used Prime Emacs, in which that problem was
...
>The other way was to provide built-in alternate bindings for those two keys.
>The alternate bindings for ^S were ^X-S and ESC-S. 
>
>In MicroEmacs it should not be difficult to provide such an alternate binding
>inyour emacs.rc file. I believe that neither of those sequences is already

I am still running 3.9e.  The only standard bindings are ^Q, ^S, ^X^S
and M-^S.  ^Q is bound to quote-character and M-^S is bound to
change-screen-size.  I just unbound them since I don't use them much.
I rebound ^S and ^X^S as follows:

	^S   => M-/	search-forward (for some similarity to vi)
			^R => M-? search-reverse for the same reason
	^X^S => M-S	save-file

I have been operating this way since 3.7 with no problems at all.
-- 
Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA				  412-471-5320
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