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Subject: Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively?
From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
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> Anyway, hope people finds it useful, and please send me any extra info
> on how to implement/configure/restore the standard Unix behavior in
> any other environments and apps.

On a Mac:

mkdir -p $HOME/Library/KeyBindings
cat >$HOME/Library/KeyBindings <<EOF
{
 "^u" = "deleteToBeginningOfLine:";
 "^w" = "deleteWordBackward:";
}
EOF

will make ^U and ^W work across all applications.

> P.S.: I even recently wrote a Google Chrome extension to implement the
> Unix text editing keyboard shortcuts in web pages, it works fairly
> well so far: http://repo.cat-v.org/burning_chrome/hosaka/ next task is
> implementing acme-like mouse chording ;)

Neat.  If you could make the tab key actually generate
a tab character, that would be fantastic.

Russ