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- From: kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
- Subject: Re: demacs vs. freemacs
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.152831.3973@digi.lonestar.org>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 15:28:31 GMT
- References: <ARA.92Aug16040312@camelot.ai.mit.edu>
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- In article <ARA.92Aug16040312@camelot.ai.mit.edu> ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler) writes:
- >
- >(3) In freemacs, you can use the alt key nearly interchangeably with the
- > escape key. In demacs apparently you cannot.
-
- It is possible to use the alt key as a Meta key, but you have to enable it.
- Instructions on doing this are contained in the sample .emacs file, if I
- remember correctly, near the end of the file.
-
- >(4) In freemacs, you can use both the backspace and the delete keys for
- > deletions, whereas in demacs the backspace key triggers HELP.
-
- You need to READ the contents of the sample .emacs file. You can swap things
- around so that the backspace key acts like a delete key. Then
- control-backspace will invoke help.
-
- >(5) In freemacs, if I give the command M-x search-forward and then want
- > to search for the same string it remembers the string so that you don't
- > have to type it again. If you issue the same M-x command twice in a row,
- > you don't have to type it the second time because it remembers it.
-
- Try using incremental search bound to C-s. While in an incremental search,
- pressing C-s again searches forward again for the remembered string, while C-r
- will search in the reverse direction.
-
- >(6) ^@ works in freemacs to mark the beginning of something you want to
- > move into the yank buffer, this being ended by ^w.. When I type ^@
- > in demacs, I get a beep but no message about the mark being set. By
- > ^@ I mean ^-shift-2.
-
- In GNU Emacs (Demacs), this is called setting the mark. Normally, this is
- done by pressing control-spacebar. But, in Demacs, it is done by pressing
- control-spacebar TWICE.
-
- >I will prefer to work with demacs because it is more powerful, implements
- >more of GNU emacs, including the info facility, but I would like it better
- >if I could equip it with the features I have noted in freemacs and if I
- >could get some of the features it is supposed to have to work, such
- >as M-x recover-file and ^@ and allowing other processes such as REDUCE
- >to run while it is suspensed.
-
- Freemacs takes up less conventional memory than does Demacs. This may account
- for your problems when running REDUCE after suspending Demacs.
-
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