[racket-dev] change default binding of c:x; c:w to "save definitions as..." ?

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 22 12:06:20 EDT 2011

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:00 AM, John Clements
<clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
>
> On Mar 22, 2011, at 2:56 AM, Pierpaolo Bernardi wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 21:29, Robby Findler
>> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>>> We can do whatever is standard on whatever platform nowadays thanks to gr2.
>>
>> I woud like a standard way to tell DrRacket that my platform is emacs,
>> whatever OS may happen to be under emacs at the moment...
>
> On the platforms I use (OS X & Linux), I find that I can have my cake and eat it too; on the Mac, the control key (used by emacs bindings) is distinct from the command key (used by menu bindings).  On Linux, I have the menu-key set to something other than the control key, so again, both sets of bindings work.

FWIW, there is also a preference that disables the menu key bindings
that is useful on platforms that use control as the shortcut

But there are lots of emacs bindings that aren't there.

Robby



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