Re: Emacs Language Sensitive Editing

[Jean-Marc Bourguet <jbourguet@free.fr>]

Peter Hermann <ica2ph@iris16.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:

> Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> > For those who might have missed it, here is the announcement of a
> > version release for Else, which has excellent support for Ada. It was
> > posted on comp.emacs.sources.
> [snip]
> 
> nice to hear this.
> unfortunately, I never familiarized with emacs
> in spite of a number of initial attempts:
> The major obstacle are those unspeakable special keystroke sequences
> which I can not map on my different keyboard brands (PC, DEC, SGI, Sun).
> I wonder how people are using their specific keyboards.
> (e.g. where is "The Meta Key", where the ESC, gold, etc. etc.)

The meta key is the one with a diamond on my Sun keyboard.  On
keyboard not having a meta key, usually the Alt key is used instead.
On PC, I've seen one of the "windows" key used as meta key as well.

The ESC key is the one labelled with Esc on most keyboards (sun, pc at
least). I've seen some Dec keyboards without it.  It is always
accessible as CTRL-[ and was also available as one of the function key
(F11 is memory serve) on those Dec keyboards.

I don't remember having see mention of the gold key with emacs.  When
I used some editor on VMS on VT100 it was one of the function key above
the numeric keypad, but I don't remember which.

I've added comp.emacs to the distribution list and set the follow up
there.

-- 
Jean-Marc