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- Subject: Re: IMPOSSIBLE hacks? or just very hard to do?
- In-Reply-To: dsg@blackbird.mitre.org's message of Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:53:10 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:21:21 GMT
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- In article <DSG.93Jan11105310@blackbird.mitre.org> dsg@blackbird.mitre.org (David S. Goldberg) writes:
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- limits the change to that piece of software. But by modifying the
- terminal driver, you force the change on everyone on the system.
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- thanks for the discussion. as far as i'm concerned, if it isn't
- emacs, i don't care all that much about it :-). i want to switch
- terminals and still have it work. people with repetitive motion
- disorders, arthritis, missing or thick fingers, only one arm, etc.
- would really appreciate the ability to make sticky the ctrl and shift
- modifiers.
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- Couldn't you just write a wrapper around redisplay that calls your
- arbitrary functions in a hook?
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- after i posted, i realized that's pretty much possible.
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- i would really be very pleased if emacs could do my first two
- impossible hacks (sticky shifts and improved forward-word), and the
- last (ability to negate paren groupings in regexps).
- --
- i'm open to comparing research career notes with other cogsci/cogneuro people.
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