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Re: [Gcl-devel] Emacs Keybindings for early LISP keyboards and iMac BT?


From: Camm Maguire
Subject: Re: [Gcl-devel] Emacs Keybindings for early LISP keyboards and iMac BT?
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 14:16:02 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux)

Greetings, and thanks for your query!  Alas I am ignorant concerning
the LISP Machine keybindings.

Take care,

Nicholas Papadonis <address@hidden> writes:

> Does anyone know the physical to functional keybindings for early LISP 
> Machine keyboards, Symbols, Knight, Space Cadet etc featured here:
>
> http://xahlee.info/kbd/lisp_keyboards.html
>
> I did an analysis against the Space Cadet against my iMac Bluetooth keyboard. 
>  Here are some rough samples because physical mapping is not 1-1:
>
> iMac.                          Symbolics Space Cadet
> Command Left/Right  Space or no key
> Option Left.                Control
> Control Left.               Control
> Fn Left                       Meta
> Option Right.                Control
> Left Arrow Right.         Control
> Up/Down Arrow           Right Meta
> Caps Lock                     Alt Mode or Rub Out (Delete under char?)
> Tab                                Network or Tab
>
> I'm suspicious that the Space Cadet ALT MODE which is close to the iMac TAB 
> may be the original mapping to Meta functionality because it corresponds 
> easily to the pinky figure.
>
> Also, does anyone have a good keymap for using Emacs with LISP using Mac OSX 
> and iMac's BT keyboard.
>
> Appreciate anyone's guidance on this.  Apologies if this is off topic, 
> however unsure where to go to get the community required to answer this.
>
> Thanks!
>
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Camm Maguire                                        address@hidden
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