KFL%MX.LCS.MIT.EDU@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU.UUCP (07/26/86)
From: hadron!jsdy@seismo.CSS.GOV (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Whether or not this is possible, one feature of EMACS is the
ability to bind commands to whatever keys & meta-keys you want.
Exactly. So if you can't do that, you don't have Emacs.
Saying that an editor is 'just like Emacs' if you can make Emacs
act just like it isn't reasonable. Since Emacs can perfectly emulate
EDT, VI, and TPU those are ALREADY Emacs by that standard.
It is true that one can search just as well using some key other
than ^S. But why should anyone have to?
What's "TPU"? I missed the earlier post.
That's right, you don't use VMS these days. TPU is DEC's new screen
editor. It is way ahead of EDT, and it is heading in approximately the
right direction, but it still isn't Emacs yet.
...Keith