[net.emacs] Alternative to ^P

alb@alice.UUCP (12/19/83)

Is there a way to go up a line other than ^P?  I am
using a crude version of EMACS on a PR1ME, and ^P
is a signal to the PR1MOS OS to quit whatever you're
doing.  It makes it quite useless to EMACS.

barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) (12/21/83)

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If you are using the standard PRIMOS Emacs, it uses ^Z wherever normal
Emacs uses ^P in order to get around this problem.

Incidentally, for you trivia buffs, the Pr1me Emacs was co-written by
Bob Frankston, co-creator of Visicalc.
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			Barry Margolin
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mather@uicsl.UUCP (12/22/83)

#R:alice:-240700:uicsl:21900004:000:746
uicsl!mather    Dec 21 12:37:00 1983

If you have a version of emacs that allows redefinition of the keymap,
you can re-bind the 'previous-line' function to whatever key you wish.
Let's make control-U the previous-line function.
First, do the old esc-x to get to command mode, then type:

bind-to-key previous-line ^U           (^U is a single key-stroke)

Now, emacs, being wise and predictive, will insert prompts before
each field (when you type <space>), so that it will look like:

: bind-to-key name: previous-line key: ^U

Now, control-U will take you up a line
(as will control-P until you rebind it.)

This can also be done by putting the bind-to-key command in your
.emacs_pro   file.

                               B.C.
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