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IDLWAVE: no sympathy for the devil (vi vi vi) [message #47142]

Mon, 23 January 2006 10:42

MarioIncandenza
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Registered: February 2005

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Hi brilliant people,

I covet IDLWAVE. For instance, I'm tired of typing

if(n_elements(n) gt 0) then begin

But, my transition to Emacs has been rocky. Well, it's perhaps better
described as "quite smooth but also quite incomplete." I use VIPER,
which, if you don't know, stands for "VIper is a Package for Emacs
Rebels." (http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/gnu/emacs/viper_toc.html). It
seems I just can't give up intuitive keystrokes like :.,.+5s/^/; ,
although I'm sure there is an equivalent stream of gibberish that
accomplishes that in native Emacs.

I work in two modes: I use Xemacs on my windows box, and I use Xemacs
on a Linux box through Reflection, using the windows box as a terminal.

So, basically, Windows denies me the ALT key, and Viper denies me the
ESC key.

Is there any trickery I can employ to get around this?

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