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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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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.


I figured out the answer to this. Turns out that in the DOS version,
you can bind to Alt-key combinations using "A-X" in the emacs.rc file,
for example:

bind-to-key previous-word A-B

But in the Windows you use "A-x" (lower case):

bind-to-key previous-word A-b

SO: since I am using the same emacs.rc for both, I just put both
bindings in there.

Another note: I found you can test for the DOS version as follows:

!if &seq $version "3.10"
	; Whatever you want to do only on the DOS version, like
        ; setting colors or binding i-shell.
!endif

This way you can use the same emacs.rc for both setups. The Windows
version sets $version to "3.10e".

Finally, don't try "M-x describe-variables", it causes a UAE.

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