Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!littlei!reed!kamath
From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Misbehavior in Jove
Message-ID: <9597@reed.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jun 88 17:56:46 GMT
References: <212@isl.stanford.edu> <8181@ihlpa.ATT.COM> <5584@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <1618@iscuva.ISCS.COM>
Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <1618@iscuva.ISCS.COM> jimc@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Jim Cathey) writes:
>>[mention of ^N giving newlines, when could be better used.]
>
>Hear hear!  I've always hated that feature, and since I'm the one who 
>installed GNU Emacs here I took it out completely!  Local standards by fiat!

Have you folks ever heard of bind-to-key?  If you don't like ^N giving you
newlines at the end of the file, then bind it to something else!  I have
mine bound to next-line.  So type "ESC X bind-to-key end-of-file ^N" and be
done with it.  That's why Emacs is called Emacs -- editing macros.  You can
create your own macros, and bind those to keys, too.

>On an unrelated issue...  Is anyone else disgusted by the misuse of the
>term 'meta' in the microemacsen?  It looks like they just did a global-
>search-and-replace of Meta for ESC!  (Leading to such silliness as "...press
>the Meta key to stop the search.")

The meta-key is also bindable.  There is a variable called meta-key, which,
when on, allows the use of a real meta key.  But if you want, you can bind
'`' to meta, as a *lot* of macintosh users have done. . .


>! II      CCCCCC !  Jim Cathey


Sean Kamath
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