From: BreadWithSpam@... Date: 2006-03-28T12:18:55+09:00 Subject: Re: [OT] Using emacs on Apple's PowerBook Dae San Hwang writes: > For all you emacs/PowerBook users, how do you live with your > PowerBook? I've been thinking about buying a powerbook for four > years now but didn't only because using emacs key bindings seems > extremely awkward on Apple's laptops. On the lower left side of Been using it for years. Never had any trouble with it at all. I had a harder time a number of years ago going from a Sun keyboard with the control key where everyone's got the capsLock key these days to a keyboard with the control key on the bottom left. > I actually had expected someone would build/sell a customized > PowerBook keyboards tailored for emacs users by now.. I am confused You can control the keyboard layout. Is it worth it? You'd end up screwing up everytime you used a 'normal' keyboard. For the same reason, I keep customizations of emacs itself to a minimum, too. > With the introduction of MacBook Pro and near ubiquitousness of WiFi > connection, my desire for a laptop couldn't have been higher. Can > anybody who share this dilemma comment on this? I love my PB G4 15". Just got an Intel iMac, and will eventually replace the G4 pbook with an Intel machine, but not yet. > For those of you who think I'm a total nut for expecting Apple to > solve my person problem, emacs key bindings have been supported in Kind of. You'll probably hate the fact that the trackpad only has a single button even more than anything the keyboard can do to you. (There are some things you can do to help with that, too - SideTrack, an extension, helps a lot). If I'm going to be working on the machine for more than a little while, I plug in a small external mouse (with scrollwheel and two buttons). -- Plain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks. The rest gets trashed. No HTML in E-Mail! -- http://www.expita.com/nomime.html Are you posting responses that are easy for others to follow? http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting