Re: [racket] Emacs-style keybindings in Windows

2010-10-30 Thread John Clements
On Oct 20, 2010, at 9:48 PM, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi > wrote: >> I turn off menu key bindings: >> >> Edit | Preferences... | Editing | General | Enable keybindings in menus > > Aha! I think I used to know that ... > > ... while we're on

Re: [racket] Emacs-style keybindings in Windows

2010-10-21 Thread Robby Findler
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > Eric Hanchrow wrote at 10/21/2010 12:48 AM: >> >> But I can't figure out how to do what Emacs does when I type M-), namely: >> move point across one closing paren, without inserting any.  Is there an >> equivalent for that? >> > > Something l

Re: [racket] Emacs-style keybindings in Windows

2010-10-21 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Eric Hanchrow wrote at 10/21/2010 12:48 AM: But I can't figure out how to do what Emacs does when I type M-), namely: move point across one closing paren, without inserting any. Is there an equivalent for that? Something like that... In the normal DrRacket key bindings, you get equivalen

Re: [racket] Emacs-style keybindings in Windows

2010-10-21 Thread Shriram Krishnamurthi
> ... while we're on the subject, I see that M-( does in DrRacket what > it does in Emacs: inserts a () and leaves the insertion point between > them.  Splendid!  But I can't figure out how to do what Emacs does > when I type M-), namely: move point across one closing paren, without > inserting a

Re: [racket] Emacs-style keybindings in Windows

2010-10-20 Thread Eric Hanchrow
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: > I turn off menu key bindings: > > Edit | Preferences... | Editing | General | Enable keybindings in menus Aha! I think I used to know that ... ... while we're on the subject, I see that M-( does in DrRacket what it does in Emacs:

Re: [racket] Emacs-style keybindings in Windows

2010-10-20 Thread Joe Snikeris
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: >>> (turn it off).   Now you have Alt at your disposal, and with it a good >>> chunk of Emacs keybindings. >> >> What do you press to copy selected text? > > C-Space to start selecting, M-w (Alt+w) to copy, and C-y to paste. Ahh this

Re: [racket] Emacs-style keybindings in Windows

2010-10-20 Thread Shriram Krishnamurthi
>> I turn off menu key bindings: > > Me too. So what's the problem w/ using Alt? >> (turn it off).  Now you have Alt at your disposal, and with it a good >> chunk of Emacs keybindings. > > What do you press to copy selected text? C-Space to start selecting, M-w (Alt+w) to copy, and C-y to paste

Re: [racket] Emacs-style keybindings in Windows

2010-10-20 Thread Joe Snikeris
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: > I turn off menu key bindings: Me too. > (turn it off).  Now you have Alt at your disposal, and with it a good > chunk of Emacs keybindings. What do you press to copy selected text? > I edit all my code in DrRacket on Windows, and

Re: [racket] Emacs-style keybindings in Windows

2010-10-20 Thread Shriram Krishnamurthi
I turn off menu key bindings: Edit | Preferences... | Editing | General | Enable keybindings in menus (turn it off). Now you have Alt at your disposal, and with it a good chunk of Emacs keybindings. I edit all my code in DrRacket on Windows, and with this configuration, it works very well. Shr

Re: [racket] Emacs-style keybindings in Windows

2010-10-20 Thread Joe Snikeris
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Joe Snikeris wrote: > I find the default emacs-style keybindings difficult to cope with in > Windows. Somewhat related: I'm editing a file and press C-s to search for something. I press C-o to switch to the search frame. I enter my search text. I press . I e

[racket] Emacs-style keybindings in Windows

2010-10-20 Thread Joe Snikeris
Hi all, I find the default emacs-style keybindings difficult to cope with in Windows. Specifically, I'm used to filling in for in emacs. I've been a good sport in trying to get used to this new editing environment. but reaching up to and pressing 'w' is too awkward for something that happens