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Re: Default Emacs keybindings (was: Re: Menu suggestion)


From: Piet van Oostrum
Subject: 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.
-- 
Piet van Oostrum <address@hidden>
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