On 29Jul2015 18:32, Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> wrote:
In a message of Tue, 28 Jul 2015 20:35:15 -0700, Rustom Mody writes:
- I should not have to customize emacs so that CTRL/A, CTRL/E, CTRL/N, and
CTRL/P continue to work the way they've done since the mid-1970s.
etc etc
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ยน emacs 18 dates from around 1992 (!!)
No, the original one was written in 1976.
These control characters are the very basic move characters in emacs.
People have always been free to remap them if they want them to do
something else, but waking up in the morning and discovering that you
cannot move to the front of your current line, to the end ot it, one line
up and one line down because somebody has changed this ***for everybody***
would get me quite upset, too.
Yeah, I'd be annoyed too. I'm a vi user, but use the emacs mode for shell
command line editing as it is modeless. ^A, ^E, ^P and ^N are really quite
critical.
Laura (happy emacs user since 1979)
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> (happy vi user since 1985)
English is a living language, but simple illiteracy is no basis for
linguistic evolution. - Dwight MacDonald
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