From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: eMacs w/o e (What's a good stand-alone editor?)
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On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> IMHO, Emacs would rule if it could be set up to use the
> KEYbindings from Macs (sans E). (Ctrl+Z undo, Ctrl+X
> kill selection, Ctrl+C copy selection, Ctrl+V yank, etc.)

You can rebind all the keys in your _emacs file as you want; none of
the key bindings is untouchable.  Where's the problem?

> or the MesS-DOS Edit bindings (Alt-Bksp undo,
> Shift-Del kill selection, Ctrl+Ins copy selection, Shift+Ins
> yank, etc.)

This is already available: try the commands "M-x pc-bindings-mode" and
"M-x pc-selection-mode".

> > Does Emacs support larger text modes like RHIDE?
> 
> The DOS Emacs I tried did. In the Command shell,
> C:\DJGPP>mode,50
> gives an 80x50 screen. Then open Emacs.

As I wrote elsewhere in a related thread, there are Emacs commands to
change the screen dimensions from inside Emacs.  Try "M-x mode4350",
for example.

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