Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!nrl-cmf!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!att!cbnews!shurr From: shurr@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: MicroEMACS Message-ID: <2907@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 5 Jan 89 18:33:27 GMT References: <14312@srcsip.UUCP> Reply-To: shurr@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories (actually an AGS consultant) Lines: 47 In article <14312@srcsip.UUCP> rogers@orion.UUCP (Brynn Rogers) writes: >I have downloaded MicroEMACS ver 3.9 from the simtel archive, >but It makes me hit ESC then X for M-X. >I would much rather hit the ALT and X at the same time, like on unix >(on a SUN the LEFT and RIGHT keys are the same as the ALT key) >If someone can tell me how to fix the alt key or tell me of a better >emacs for IBM PC compatables, I would greatly appriciate it. Personally, I think that MicroEMACS is the best PC emacs (among the freebies, at least - I have never even tried any of the pay-for PC emacses (emacsi?), one of these MAY be better - they had better be at those prices). NOTE: by way of disclaimer, waiver, and cowardice in the face of an overwhelming flame threat, I want to say that I regard editor preference as a personal matter and that there is no need for us to agree on this issue or for one or the other of us to be 'right' and the other 'wrong'. If anyone out there has anything useful or helpful to say, by all means, please send mail. I will not, however, debate the issue and all flames will be sent down the cloaca. To accomplish something similar to what you want, I have simply used a series of "bind-to-key" commands in my emacs.rc file. For example, to bind ALT-X to behave the same as Meta-X, I use the command "bind-to-key execute-named-command FN-" in emacs.rc. Similarly, I bind ALT-O to behave the same as Meta-O using "bind-to-key next-window FN^X". The FN notation is regrettably rather cumbersome. I find out what FN to use by binding the key interactively first since emacs displays the complete command including the appropriate FN code. Sometimes the result is a non-keyboard character such as an "a-umlaut". For these, you have to look up the decimal code for that character and then press- and-hold ALT while you enter the code as three decimal digits USING THE NUMERIC KEYPAD KEYS when you enter the bind-to-key command into your emacs.rc file using your editor (MicroEMACS, of course). This is NOT a generalized solution in which all ALT- combinations are automatically interpreted as Meta-. To accomplish that, you would have to modify the keyboard input routine. I was considering doing this, but I found that the "bind-to-key approach" was adequate for my purposes. regards, Larry -- Signed: Larry A. Shurr (att!cbnews!cbema!shurr or osu-cis!apr!las) Notice: 'R'eply probably won't reach me - try above addresses, OK? Thanks. Clever signature, Wonderful wit, Outdo the others, Be a big hit! - Burma Shave (With apologies to the real thing. Above represents my views only.)