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From: lastole@athena.mit.edu (Lars A Stole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Emacs on NeXT
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Date: 16 Dec 90 15:56:48 GMT
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I recently received my NeXT slab and it's great.  I've spent the last week getting together
software from friends with the extended edition to put on my meager 105MB drive. 
Unfortunately, I'm having difficulty getting emacs to run like to does on a VAX 3100 (which
I'm used to).  On the VAX, the cursor keys execute forward-word and backward-word when the
META key is pressed.  I can't figure out how to do a similar key-binding for the NeXT.   Has
anyone out there done this?

Also, it would be nice to get mouse support for emacs.  Back in my PC days, any program that recognized cursor keys could also recognize a mouse (at least a Logitech) with very minimal programming; you essentially convinced the mouse that it was a set of cursor keys.  Is there a way to do this for Emacs?  

Finally, is there a way to remap the backslash key on the NeXT keyboard to a more useful place?

Thanks in advance.



Lars Stole
Department of Economics, MIT