Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!lll-crg!seismo!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!spice.cs.cmu.edu!mjp From: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: New V1.2G1 EMACS Message-ID: <1105@spice.cs.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 10:38:40 EST Article-I.D.: spice.1105 Posted: Thu Dec 11 10:38:40 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Dec-86 11:38:00 EST Reply-To: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Distribution: net Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 43 Keywords: Oh, good lord! How can you call your program microGNUemacs if it doesn't do C-T the same way real GNU does? The way Stallman defines it, C-T transposes the characters on either side of point (the one underneath the cursor and the one directly preceding it) and moves the cursor forward. There is a reason why the cursor moves forward--it allows you to "drag" a letter through a string of characters, like: rfooba frooba foroba foorba foobra foobar The advantage of the Gosling Emacs method of transposition (i.e. transpose the two characters preceding the cursor, cursor stays still) is fine for text entry because it allows you to correct a transposition without moving the cursor, i.e. bza => baz. Personally, I prefer the GNU method since I usually backspace to correct transposition errors I just made. I taught Gosmacs the proper way to do things with a little mlisp code. And speaking of which, I hope I never see an Emacs for the Amiga that uses mlisp...I want an extensible editor on my Amiga badly, but not that bad. Mlisp is a travesty to its illegitimate father (i.e. real Lisp). Does mg1a have some sort of extension language so I can tailor its behavior to my taste, or do I have to go in and hack the source? -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mike Portuesi | | Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Science Department | | | | ARPA: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu | | UUCP: {harvard | seismo | ucbvax | decwrl}!spice.cs.cmu.edu!mjp | | | | "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture" | | --Laurie Anderson, "Home of the Brave" | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+