Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!shlump.nac.dec.com!pa.dec.com!bacchus!mwm From: mwm@raven.relay.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction Subject: Re: Emacs for the Amiga 1000 ? (MicroEmacs?) Message-ID: Date: 15 Jan 91 17:22:40 GMT References: <17399@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Jan15.091854.24428@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Distribution: comp Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG's message of 15 Jan 91 09:18:54 GMT It is just too much to expect a touch typist to use the delete key for emacs, and the backspace key for everything else typed. Some environments (for example, anywhere inside of Digital) default to the delete key to delete characters. The only reason I haven't changed over to that is because getting an Amiga to consistently believe that the large key in the upper right of the keyboard is a delete key is difficult. If I could do that, I'd quit using the backspace key to delete characters.