Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!udel!mmdf From: "kosma@ALAN.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM"@alan.kahuna.decnet.lockheed.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: UEmacs, CygnusEd question Message-ID: <16088@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 23 May 89 18:08:34 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 41 Received: from BLAISE.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM by ALAN.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM via CHAOS with CHAOS-MAIL id 22802; Thu 18-May-89 15:39:11 PDT Date: Thu, 18 May 89 15:39 PDT From: Montgomery Kosma Subject: UEmacs, CygnusEd question To: "eagle::amiga-relay%udel.edu"@KAHUNA.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM Message-ID: <19890518223909.8.KOSMA@BLAISE.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM> I've been trying to figure out how to get UEmacs (I think it's ver. 3.9) to recognize ALT as a META key (i.e. ALT+char -> char) since I would then have basically identical keystrokes as my lisp machine editor ZMACS. My first shot at this was defining keys in the UEmacs init file, which worked fine for the function keys and numeric keypad but would only work from within UEmacs (NOT in an init file) for the ALT keys. So, I figured I needed to fool with the amiga system keymaps, and did so with some of the PD keymap editors around. So, I defined a keymap to translate all the ALT+alpha keys to alpha. I was frustrated to discover that this particular version of UEmacs did not use the default system keymap (at least, it did not understand the keys I had defined). The Amiga Extras 1.3 version (memacs) did work with the redefined keys, but lacked a lot in power (uemacs already lacks lots in power over the lisp machine editor)... So, here's the question(s): 1. I believe there's a new version of UEmacs out and about; does anybody know if it will allow EITHER redefinition of alt keys from init files OR use of the standard system keymaps? 2. I've read and heard a little bit about CygnusEd. How would it fare in a similar case? How does it compare to UEmacs? Could I customize it to use similar keystrokes/features as Emacs? Thanks! Montgomery N. Kosma LE03472%portal.decnet.lockheed.com@austin.lockheed.com ( it's long but it works ) ( hopefully )