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From: darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Re: INFO-MAC Articles - 3 of 8
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Date: Fri, 1-Jun-84 00:23:06 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  1 00:23:06 1984
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Reply-To: darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Darrel VanBuer)
Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica
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Apparently some (non Mac users) are complaining of a lack of META, ESCAPE
and arrow keys to use with EMACS on a MACterminal.  I'm not a macuser, but
I heavily use a similar interface constantly on a Xerox lisp machine.
Emacs is my main editor on VAX unix, and I use it both from ordinary
terminals (so I know and use most of the arcane keybindings) and from a
virtual terminal on Ethernet in a Lisp window.  On the Lisp machine I do
most of my cursor movements, scrolling, gross positioning and commands with
the mouse, not from the keyboard.  I move a few characters from the keyboard,
anything longer with the mouse, including scrolling (both by number of lines
and percent of file).  Most of the commands I use are on menus surrounding
the "terminal".  Emacs has so (damn) many commands to provide lots of
flexibility.  The mouse subsumes most of them with a small set of paradigms.
(By the way, it took only a few dozens of lines of lines of code in each of
the Lisp machine and emacs to make it work.  The programability of Emacs is
quite worthwhile [for wizards, anyway]).

(clue to value of the mouse [to me]: it's got the only uncluttered square
foot of surface area in my office)

-- 
Darrel J. Van Buer, PhD
System Development Corp.
2500 Colorado Ave
Santa Monica, CA 90406
(213)820-4111 x5449
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