GNU EMACS

[Tamminen Eero <t150315@proffa.cc.tut.fi>]

> Does anyone have a good keybinding for GNU EMACS 18 so that my cursor
> keys work properly, my Backspace is Backspace, Help is Help, Del is Del,
> etc?  I might re-install EMACS if I can get this stuff from someone.

You can do that with the bind-key command or something like that (see
Emacs help), but I recommend you to use xkey MiNT utility to bind ST
kursor keys to the ones used by Emacs as most of the unix programs
like shells understand them too. Besides, the Emacs cursor movement
shortcuts are one letter in lenght whereas normal cursor keys output
ESC sequences. One letter alternatives are slightly faster as that
way Emacs needs to interpret only one layer of bindings ;-)))).

If I remember right, the only key that could not be binded by xkey
was DEL, for that you'll have to do a E-Lisp one-liner :). I posted
such to c.s.a.s.t a year ago, maybe somebody here on list still has it
(Christer Gustafsson?).


> Also, has anyone successfully ported EMACS 19 to MiNT?  I'm only asking
> because I've started using it at work under OS/2 due to the
> syntax-highlighting, SGML mode, html-helper-mode, and other nice
> features (though I've got to re-train myself after using MicroEMACS for
> years).

Those are E-lisp additions. Have you tried compiling them on your version
of Emacs? I think that the v19 Emacs has network and X stuff added to it
(hopefully it's conditionally compiled), I don't believe there to be many
changed to the old E-lisp commands. You might get those programs compiled
in the old Emacs by removing parts of code that rely on new features.


And no, I don't use Emacs myself :). I had it on the spring on my computer
but then my bigger harddisk chrashed with all my MiNT and X stuff. Now I
got only a Magafile on which I have been slowly adding MiNT parts.

My normal text-editor is ME 3.5 (The Mutt Editor) by Craig Durland. It's
a cross between MicroEmacs and Real Emacs. It has Emacs keyboard commands,
but it's programming language isn't Lisp. It's syntax has a certain Lisp
flavor, but it's more C-like to program. I have compiled a baserelative
version of ME onto my WWW page, it needs MiNT to run and sockets if you
want to run programs in a ME window (quite clumsily done, but works).

The ME binary is 150k (needs about 250k free memory), and it comes with
lots of loadable Mutt programs like help-system, c-mode, gomoku :),
calculator etc. As my hd chrashed, there are no sources, but you can
get them from the Craig Durland's ftp-site.


	- Eero		/* http://www.modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~puujalka */