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From: cloos@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (James H. Cloos Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What a joke Emacs is (CTRL-Q/S controversy)
Message-ID: <5427@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 8 Jul 88 07:09:32 GMT
References: <3601@csvax.liv.ac.uk> <23571@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> <3918@csvax.liv.ac.uk>
Reply-To: cloos@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (James H. Cloos Jr.)
Organization: Cornell Computer Services, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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In article <3918@csvax.liv.ac.uk> sqrkl@csvax.liv.ac.uk writes:
|In article <23571@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>,
| mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) writes:
|> 
|> How fast does it (Maculator) go WITHOUT xon/xoff?  Emacs uses ^S for
|> "incremental search", and ^Q for "quote" (to allow you to insert control
|> chars into your buffer).
|> 
|I find it amazing that an editor (does Emacs deserve such an accolade ?)
|in these so-called modern times actually uses CTRL-Q and CTRL-S as commands.
|This has me dumbfounded (for a change !) and it serves anyone right who
|uses Emacs. All minis/mainframes I know of (no doubt there are exceptions)
|support XON/XOFF as a matter of course and you WOULD be foolish to run a
|terminal emulator at high speeds without XON/XOFF active.
	Furthermore, the thing everybody seems to be missing is that
	it is trivial to remap the functions that are at ^Q and ^S to
	other keys.  ^\,  ^`, and ^/ are some of the otherwise unbound
	keys that can be used to replace ^Q and ^S.  Most of the Emacsen
	here at Cornell have default mapings that take into consideration
	the fact that ^Q and ^S are unavailable.

	The problem is not with Emacsen, but rahter with users/compilers
	who don't use the features of Emacsen such as user definable
	key bindings and compilation-time defineable default key bindings.

-JimC
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