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From: rajendra@bcsaic.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Assigning key bindings.
Message-ID: <600@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Jul-86 15:45:09 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 10 15:45:09 1986
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Reply-To: rajendra@bcsaic.UUCP (rajendra dodhiawala)
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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Another problem that I have faced is that different EMACS' use different
key bindings for the same function. Maybe there should be a standard
set so that you dont have to relearn the keystrokes when the system
administer at your site decides to change from one emacs to another! 

Some of the standardization may come from ZMACS, maybe, which is pretty
much the standard on lisp machines (huh! Xerox?). Of course, ^S/^Q etc
problems will have to be sorted out. (I know in some emacs you can bind
a key to have "gobble-char" (or something similar) which basically boils
down to a no-op.) I don't know if any effort on standardization has
taken place before; its about time one did. If any particular
implementation does not use the standardized key bindings, then we
should boycott it. 

This will enable us to use the same .emacs_pro, i.e. the init files for
whatever extra stuff we write to build our environment (the feature of 
emacs that makes it the BEST!).

				- rajendra
 
arpa: uw-june!rajendra@bcsaic

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