Re: OT: GUI [was:]Ann: TeXCAD 4.1

["Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net>]

Bj�rn Persson wrote:

> Every time I want to go to the end of the line I get sent all the way 
> down to the end of the file and totally lose my place because I pressed 
> End without thinking. Is that the strength of Emacs?
> 
> Yes I know I could learn Emacs-Lisp and rewire the entire user 
> interface. I prefer to use an editor that I don't have to rewire, and 
> program something more interesting in Ada instead.

You definitely don't have to do all that to rebind one key.  In fact if 
I remember correctly, the escape sequence generated by the "End" key is 
not standard emacs.  That is an "additional" binding someone has added 
for you.  Hmmm.  In XEmacs which I use, the End key is not bound to 
anything by default. It only takes a few seconds to bind it to 
"end-of-line", which seems to me to be reasonable binding for it.  Of 
course, I won't bother to add it to my .emacs file, since I will 
continue to type C-e having learned that before I had a keyboard with an 
End key. ;-)


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