Re: trying to figure out alternative cut and paste (Eric S. Johansson)

steven Mitchell writes: Actually, while making something maintainable that would keep all users happy is hard work (it took about a decade to get CUA mode to where it is), it's not as hard as you might think to do a very complete remapping for personal use. Of course all the printed docs will be wonky! But it's probably not that hard to remember, and you can use C-h w to find out where you stashed a particular command. The trick is to remap the prefix keys as a block. This is not always possible. It *is* possible to put a key sequence into the global map, for example, and then each sequence using the same prefix must be remapped separately. However, many key sequences actually index into a cascade of maps. For example C-x is actually bound by itself, to the symbol `ctl-x-map' which has no command binding, but does have a value, which is the keymap of bindings of sequences starting with C-x. AFAIK there is no keymap browser mode other than C-h b, but one could easily be created with `lookup-key'. The code for `describe-bindings' might provide inspiration. An interactive keymap editor along the lines of Jamie Zawinski's xkeycaps would also be a nice application. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta