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- From: ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu (Edward J. Hartnett)
- Subject: emacs over a modem on a mac keyboard
- Message-ID: <EJH.92Nov10101917@khonshu.colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: CIRES, University of Colorado
- Date: 10 Nov 92 10:19:17
- Lines: 33
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- I'm working at home, using a mac to connect to my sun at work
- and run emacs. Problem is, I have the small mac keyboard with the
- irritating lack of ctl and esc keys. Now my comm software maps the
- tilde to the esc key (I still don't know how to get a tilde, but I can
- live with that) and the little clover key is acting as CTRL which is
- fine, but is there any way I can get this option key to function as a
- meta key?
-
- Also, I was trying to remap the backspace key to backward-delete-char
- with the global-set-key command, but when I try it, I get some weird
- behavior. If I do M-x global-set-key it asks for a key. If I hit C-q
- (for example) it then asks me for a function to map to that, and I
- enter backward-delete-char and now C-q is my delete key. But when I
- tried that same thing with C-h it wouldn't accept C-h by itself, it
- wanted some other key to be pressed afterwards. When I hit C-h emacs
- showed that as C-h- and waited for another key. It's hard to explain,
- but try it and see. Can anyone explain this strange behavior to me?
-
- Also, is there anything else in emacs (any special features) that will
- help me with my dialin work? Any advice would be helpful from those
- who use emacs over a modem line (I'm at 2400 BTW).
-
- Finally, (and I realize this may not be an emacs message) is there a
- way to not get incomming mail messages plastered all over my screen?
- And is there a way for emacs to let me know on the status line when
- new mail has come in?
-
- If it makes any difference I'm running GNU emacs 18.57 on a Sun.
-
- Thanks
- --
- Edward Hartnett ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu
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