johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) (02/13/91)
I'm stumped! I can't find a way to use the control key on my (regular Mac) keyboard as part of a "Command-key". What's worse, the control key doesn't seem to be mentioned in the manual. I can't be the only Word user that would like to make Word keystroke bindings match up with a "primitive" (but memorized) text editor ... ... thanks .... -- Bill Johnston (johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu) -- 38 Chambers St.; Newark, DE 19711; (302)368-1949
aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D Danziger) (02/14/91)
In article <44501@nigel.ee.udel.edu> johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:
I'm stumped! I can't find a way to use the control key on my
(regular Mac) keyboard as part of a "Command-key". What's worse,
the control key doesn't seem to be mentioned in the manual.
I can't be the only Word user that would like to make Word keystroke
bindings match up with a "primitive" (but memorized) text editor ...
If you are referring to Emacs, I have a so-called 'Word ->Emacs'
settings file for 4.0 (which I haven't tried) which supposedly maps
the keys that way. If you need it, ask.
As far as the control key goes, on my SE/30 I just go to commands and
'add key' and type control-<whatever> and it worked.
Now, if you are referring to vi, I'm sure the command settings file
exists, or could be created fairly 'easily', relatively speaking. But
I don't know vi so I couldn't do it.
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In article <ALAND.91Feb13121911@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>, aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D Danziger) writes... >In article <44501@nigel.ee.udel.edu> johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes: In article <ALAND.91Feb13121911@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>, you write... >In article <44501@nigel.ee.udel.edu> johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes: > > I'm stumped! I can't find a way to use the control key on my > (regular Mac) keyboard as part of a "Command-key". What's worse, > the control key doesn't seem to be mentioned in the manual. >If you are referring to Emacs, I have a so-called 'Word ->Emacs' >settings file for 4.0 (which I haven't tried) which supposedly maps >the keys that way. If you need it, ask. This one uses the command-key as a substitute for the control key. It doesn't actually make use of the command-key on the Mac keyboard. >As far as the control key goes, on my SE/30 I just go to commands and >'add key' and type control-<whatever> and it worked. This positively DOES NOT WORK with my SE/30 and standard Mac ADB keyboard. When I click the "Add" button, and type ctrl-(most characters), the Mac beeps and asks me to type another character. A few control-whatever combinations have functions that seem to be hard coded: ctrl-H does a backward delete and ctrl-I inserts a Tab. When I type these combinations after clicking "Add" in the Commands dialog box, Word *thinks* I am typing "Delete" or "Tab" -- it asks if the user wants to remap those keys. It puts the "Delete" or "Tab" keystroke symbol, rather than a control-key symbol (for example, ^H). There does not seem to be any way to explicitly incorporate the control key when defining command key sequences; this is a waste of keyboard real-estate and also prevents exact emulations of emacs, vi, or edt (my poison). The alternatives are kludgy; MacroMaker and QuickKeys do allow the control-key to be used to play macros. That WORKS, but it is not as straight-forward as creating a custom Settings file as Michael Travers did for the pseudo-Emacs settings file that he posted. -- Bill (johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu)