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From: arc1@ukc.ac.uk (A.R.Curtis)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Emacs
Message-ID: <2620@gos.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Nov 89 09:52:32 GMT
References: <3397@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Reply-To: arc1@ukc.ac.uk (A.R.Curtis)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <3397@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> msc_wdqn@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Daniel Q Naiman) writes:
>
>   1. It seems like a pain to type ESC-X goto-line to move the cursor to
>

You can globally bind keys to functions using

                global-set-key

This allows you to take a key sequence and use that key sequence to
invoke one of the emacs lisp functions (either one supplied or even
one or your own).  Suppose you wanted to use C-x C-r for ``goto-line''.
What you do is

           (global-set-key "\^x\^r" 'goto-line)

>   2. In the manual to this wonderful PD Software it is indicated that 
                                     ^^^^^^
Isn't it under the GNU manifesto rather than PD? (Anyone up-to-date
with the exact definition?)  Have a look in gnu.misc.discuss or
gnu.announce, or the GNU manifesto and copying files supplied with GNU
software.

>      global search and replace commands are not needed as often in emacs
>      as they are in other editors. Why is this? Am I missing some fundamental
>      principle? Again, is it possible to replace the command ESC-X 
>      replace-string ... with a command with less keystrokes?
>

Exactly as above really.

           (global-set-key "\^c\^r" 'query-replace)

to bind C-c C-r to query-replace (string).  There is also a
query-replace-regexp.  The reason global substitutes aren't required
(often) is that you can try out a substitution with query-replace and
if it works Ok, then you can make it global, but if not then you can
abort and undo any changes which occurred.  The function documentation
for query-replace will tell you how.

Hope that helps.

Tony


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