Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rtech.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!lll-crg!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!rtech!daveb From: daveb@rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower) Newsgroups: net.emacs Subject: Re: emacs under flow control Message-ID: <542@rtech.UUCP> Date: Sun, 7-Jul-85 20:36:44 EDT Article-I.D.: rtech.542 Posted: Sun Jul 7 20:36:44 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 20:04:42 EDT References: <2899@cornell.UUCP> <466@bu-cs.UUCP> Organization: Relational Technology, Alameda CA Lines: 20 > Now we are doing the same with GNU emacs, trying to use similar > bindings. Yes, ^\ and ^] seem to be good replacement candidates for > ^S/^Q (funny, of course we chose the exact opposite order you did.) I have seen just plain '\' used for the quote character, which fits nicely with the shell and the standard 'C' convention. I have also used M-/ as the forward search command, for (god-forbid) compatibility for vi users. Since I can't easily explain why 'search' isn't ctrl-s, using something standard for something seemed appropriate. > Yes, let's standardize a flow controlled key bindings and try to use it. > A choice of two with a mention in the manual should calm down users. Let's here some more proposals and conduct a poll. -dB -- {amdahl|dual|sun|zehntel}\ {ucbvax|decvax}!mtxinu---->!rtech!daveb ihnp4!{phoenix|amdahl}___/