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Re: New Eclipse-based IDE [message #52079 is a reply to message #51953]

Fri, 29 December 2006 14:18

JD Smith
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On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:46:57 -0800, david.reitter wrote:

> JD Smith wrote:
>
>> 1. IDL is already running in X11, so you can switch back and forth using
>> focus-follow-mouse (if you like that kind of thing, and have set it
>> up).
>
> No system-wide setting for this?
> Otherwise, http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/follow-mouse.el might
> help.

Thanks for the follow-up, David.

>> 2. On my Powerbook, I don't often have my external mouse handy, but
>> with X11, I can emulate 3-button mice using Apple and Option click
>> (and turn this off when I have my real bluetooth mouse available).
>> This isn't crucial, but many things in Emacs like other clicks
>> (middle-click to paste, right-click on IDL breakpoint lines to
>> change options, etc.).
>
> Ctrl-Click maps to mouse-3, Apple-Click maps to mouse-2 in Aquamacs, if
> that helps.

Is this something that cannot or will not make it into vanilla Carbon
Emacs? Very useful feature.

>> 3. I can make Option -> Meta (for uniformity) and Apple -> Super, so I
>> can save keystrokes by mapping IDLWAVE commands like C-c C-d C-c to s-c
>> (Super-c, aka Apple-c), etc. In ~/.emacs:
>
> (setq mac-command-modifier 'super)
>
> should work in all up-to-date Carbon Emacsen including Aquamacs.
> We've put that in a while ago.

Very nice, thanks. For those of us who have Emacs key shortcuts fairly
well embedded in our hind-brains and who therefore wouldn't use the Apple
key except as e.g. super, what other advantages does Aquamacs offer over
conventional carbon Emacs? Do you plan to track the impending v22 release?

JD

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		Re: New Eclipse-based IDE By: JD Smith on Tue, 05 December 2006 09:50
		Re: New Eclipse-based IDE By: savoie on Tue, 05 December 2006 07:31
		Re: New Eclipse-based IDE By: Michael Galloy on Mon, 04 December 2006 20:46
		Re: New Eclipse-based IDE By: Richard French on Mon, 04 December 2006 19:16
		Re: New Eclipse-based IDE By: Greg Hennessy on Mon, 04 December 2006 17:54
		Re: New Eclipse-based IDE By: JD Smith on Mon, 04 December 2006 16:04
		Re: New Eclipse-based IDE By: david.reitter on Tue, 19 December 2006 13:46
		Re: New Eclipse-based IDE By: JD Smith on Fri, 29 December 2006 14:18

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