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From: bader@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Miles Bader)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Hard-coded uses of key bindings
Message-ID: <1099@spice.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Fri, 5-Dec-86 18:46:41 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  5 18:46:41 1986
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Hemlock, the emacs-type editor in spice lisp has a really wonderful idea--
logical keys.  That way, the programs which use command-keys can specify
:abort-command (not the actual name) instead of '^G' or
:search-forward-command instead of '^S'.  By simply changing the mapping for
one of the logical keys, you can change *every* occurance of recursive-edit
from ^R to something else.  It seems like it would be simply enough to have
variables containing the characters for such things and use them instead of
constants, but some consistency would obviously have to be maintained, and
it would mean changing a lot of existing code ...