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key strokes
Authored by: Anonymous on Mar 31, '01 10:24:38AM
These seem to be that infamous emacs key sequence. For instance, Control-y is 'yank back', meaning pasting a block of characters that is most recently deleted by C-k. BTW, C-k is 'kill'.

Now, an interesting part is that C-y does not paste something deleted by the standard Command-C or -X. So, if you familiarize yourself with the C-k C-y combo, you have two instant pasting boards.

For more info, see emacs help. You can get one as follows:

  1. launch emacs from the command line.
  2. type Control-h and i (just 'i', not C-i)
  3. bring a cursor down to the line starting with '*Emacs'. This brings up a new page.
  4. bring a cursor to the line starting with '*Key Index'
  5. here we are, all the default key sequence is listed
  6. you can leave the help system by typing 'q' in any page
  7. In order to quit emacs, type Control-x, Control-c in this order
Enjoy!

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key strokes
Authored by: Anonymous on Mar 31, '01 12:57:33PM

Hey thanks for the response. That whole C-k, C-y is pretty cool, now I got another clipboard! Too bad only Cocoa apps can take advantage of it.



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