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From: tdn@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA (Thomas Newton)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Re: EMACS for Macintosh
Message-ID: <381@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 14-Jun-85 22:30:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 14 22:30:24 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 17-Jun-85 03:45:08 EDT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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I would be willing to pay $10 for an EMACS mode for WORD.  Preferably, the
keyboard bindings should be similar to the bindings in Unix (Gosling) EMACS.
Definitely such basic features as cursor movement (beginning-of-line, next-
line, forward-character, next-page, previous-page, etc.), repeat counts (^U),
deletion, and insertion of killed text should be implemented.  I don't really
expect programmability -- a programmable editor would probably work better as
a stand-alone program, and would be worth more than $10.  The ability to rebind
key mappings either on-the-fly or via an initialization file would be nice.
Also, extra key bindings to access WORD's formatting functions (which EMACS,
being just a text editor, doesn't have) would be nice.

The Mac keyboard doesn't have an ESC key, but this problem can be solved by
adopting the MacTerminal standard:  "~/`" = ESC, COMMAND-"~/`" = "`", and
SHIFT-COMMAND-"~/`" = "~".

                                        -- Thomas Newton
                                           Thomas.Newton@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA