[racket] Emacs-style keybindings in Windows
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
>>> (turn it off). Now you have Alt at your disposal, and with it a good
>>> chunk of Emacs keybindings.
>>
>> What do you press to copy selected text?
>
> C-Space to start selecting, M-w (Alt+w) to copy, and C-y to paste.
Ahh this works. I think the documentation needs to be updated:
"Under Windows and Mac OS X, Meta is only available through the Escape key."
http://docs.racket-lang.org/drracket/Keyboard_Shortcuts.html
> It is a little annoying to end the selection, but other than that,
> it's just as I do in Emacs.
Yah, you need to do an extra C-<Space> to end the selection. Is this
a feature? I think ending the selection after a copy-clipboard should
be the default.
Thanks for the help!