> I have a weird love-hate relationship with keybindings in Emacs. That > is, I wish they were slightly more Unix-ized instead of whatever > arbitrary junk they decided on back in the ITS days. Ctrl-U should > delete from your cursor to the start of the line, and Ctrl-H should do > a backspace, not open Help!
I have been so annoyed by how various programs mess up the traditional Unix text editing keyboard shortcuts that I have started to document how to bring them back: http://unix-kb.cat-v.org I specially hate the trend to map ^W to closing the current window, I'm happily editing some text, make a typo or change my mind about the last word, press ^W, and pooff, all my work is gone. *arrrrrrrrrggggggg*. Anyway, hope people finds it useful, and please send me any extra info on how to implement/configure/restore the standard Unix behavior in any other environments and apps. I also would be interested in hearing more details on the exact origins of ^H ^W and ^U. Now back to your usual 9fans schedule, enjoy your keyboard vs. mouse flame uriel P.S.: I even recently wrote a Google Chrome extension to implement the Unix text editing keyboard shortcuts in web pages, it works fairly well so far: http://repo.cat-v.org/burning_chrome/hosaka/ next task is implementing acme-like mouse chording ;) > The ^H problem is especially annoying on > my Slackware box, where I apparently can't hit the Backspace key in > console-mode Emacs or else I'll open the help window. Still, emacs > makes for a decent dev environment (it's where I write most of my Unix > code) and if I ever got motivated enough, it's nice that it has a > fully-featured Lisp environment for extending stuff. > > > John > -- > "I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS > reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C, > Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba > >
