> 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
>
>

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