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From: spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky)
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Subject: Re: A Good Windows Programmers Editor
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Date: 17 Mar 91 17:36:48 GMT
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In article <1991Mar17.161430.224@athena.mit.edu> mmshah@athena.mit.edu (Milan M Shah) writes:
>WRT uEmacs for Windows, I like it, but can't figure out how to:
>
>a) Repeat a search? In uEmacs for DOS, Alt-s would search for whatever I had
>   searched before, but in uEmacs for Windows, I get a key not bound. I am
>   using the same emacs.rc file that I used with uemacs for dos, and have not
>   modified that original. My suspicion is that the winmain loop does a
>   TranslateAccelerators, which would think that Alt-<something> is a menu
>   accelerator and therefore declares that no such key exists.

You are probably right. You have to use Esc-S, etc (i.e. use "Esc" as
the meta prefix key).

>b) Where exactly is the information needed to write these .cmd files? For 
>   example, I would like to write .cmd files to comment region, indent region
>   detent region, etc. but I can't find any info in the doc file. Perhaps I
>   am missing something obvious here?

Hmm. I think there is a seperate document about this... look in the
standard MicroEmacs release, which is widely available, e.g. from
wuarchive.wustl.edu and wsmr-simtel20.army.mil.

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