Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!s3!s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca!gamin From: gamin@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca (Martin Boyer) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: .emacspro to emulate Unipress emacs Message-ID: Date: 15 Jun 91 05:10:48 GMT References: <660@ctycal.UUCP> Sender: usenet@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca Organization: Le laboratoire de robotique de l'Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec Lines: 40 In-reply-to: khera@cs.duke.edu's message of 14 Jun 91 15:42:49 GMT khera@cs.duke.edu (Vivek Khera) writes: In article <660@ctycal.UUCP> pat@ctycal.UUCP (Patrick Woo) writes: I am going through a growing pain of moving from Unipress Emacs to GNU emacs. Can someone out there send me a .emacspro (or is it .emacsrc ?) that will make gmacs emulate Unipress Emacs (in terms of keybinding). i went through this about three years ago. i don't think i'll ever go back. anyway, i still use the Unipress/Gosling key bindings. [...] I switched to GNU a year and a half ago, after 5 years of intensive use of UniPress. It *is* a pain to switch, but it took me about a month to forget the old bindings. I strongly recommend learning the new bindings unless you're willing (and good enough in elisp) to modify every new package you get from the net. The "standard" GNU bindings are known by many "non-standard" packages and used to speed up learning. Moreover, there is (most of the time) a rationale behind the construction of the GNU bindings. An example: DEL: delete character M-DEL: delete word I find ESC-DEL more intuitive than ESC-h (the UniPress way), because I never used ^H to delete, I always used the DELETE key. ^H means 'help' in GNU. Once you've figured out that BACKSPACE doesn't mean DELETE, it's easy. Easier than remembering whatever was the help key in UniPress (Control-underscore, wasn't it?). (Please, no flames about the BACKSPACE/DELETE key usage; it has been debated to death). -- Martin Boyer mboyer@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec mboyer@ireq-robot.uucp Varennes, QC, Canada J3X 1S1 +1 514 652-8412