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Re: Default Emacs keybindings (was: Re: Menu suggestion)
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Piet van Oostrum |
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Re: Default Emacs keybindings (was: Re: Menu suggestion) |
Date: |
27 Apr 2004 17:27:45 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Jan D." <address@hidden> (JD) wrote:
>>> From: "Jan D." <address@hidden>
>>> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:26:44 +0200
>>>
>>> Also, many applications on Mac OS X does handle C-a, C-e, C-f, C-p and
>>> so on the way Emacs does.
>>
>> That's because AFAIK Mac OSX is a descendant of the BSD Unix family.
>> Quite a few Unix programs support Emacs-style key bindings.
JD> That is probably one reason. But the Mail.app and TextEdit.app on Mac OSX
JD> are not descendant from any BSD programs, so Apple is extending these
JD> bindings to new programs as well.
Cocoa applications have these bindings in text fields.
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Re: Default Emacs keybindings (was: Re: Menu suggestion), Richard Stallman, 2004/04/27