Comments on: Daily links posting, not for me. http://peadrop.com/blog/2007/02/14/daily-links-posting-not-for-me/ Random Computer Musings Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:42:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Alexandre http://peadrop.com/blog/2007/02/14/daily-links-posting-not-for-me/#comment-92 Alexandre Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:45:01 +0000 http://peadrop.com/blog/2007/02/14/daily-links-posting-not-for-me/#comment-92 <p>Thanks for the tip, Bluedot. However, I usually prefer using the normal key bindings over the F-keys, simply because I don't have to move far away from the home row. If you are interested, you could peek into my Emacs keyboard bindings, <a href="http://svn.peadrop.com/emacs/lisp/ekeys.el" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p> Thanks for the tip, Bluedot. However, I usually prefer using the normal key bindings over the F-keys, simply because I don’t have to move far away from the home row. If you are interested, you could peek into my Emacs keyboard bindings, here.

]]> By: Bluedot http://peadrop.com/blog/2007/02/14/daily-links-posting-not-for-me/#comment-91 Bluedot Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:35:06 +0000 http://peadrop.com/blog/2007/02/14/daily-links-posting-not-for-me/#comment-91 <p>Here are some very useful key mappings that I have used for the last 15 years for writing code. Why press 3 keys at once to do what a function key can do. There may be issues on a Mac. Just go to preferences, keyboard, and disable the function keys. If these keys do not work for you (may not work as advertised on a Sun Solaris/Sparc based computer keyboard or other funky keyboard) then use M-x describe key to find out what your function keys are mapped to and change the contents of [].</p> <pre><code> (global-set-key [f1 ] 'indent-region ) ;; search-forward-regexp ;; one key undo (global-set-key [f2 ] 'undo ) ;; macros save lots of time (global-set-key [f3 ] 'call-last-kbd-macro ) (global-set-key [f4 ] 'start-kbd-macro ) (global-set-key [f5 ] 'end-kbd-macro ) ;; if you program rectangle operations save time ;; use C-space to set the mark ;; then move the cursor to define th rectangle. ;; takes a little experience to get this work right but after that ;; you can't live without rectangles (global-set-key [f6 ] 'clear-rectangle ) (global-set-key [f7 ] 'delete-extract-rectangle) (global-set-key [f8 ] 'kill-rectangle ) (global-set-key [f9 ] 'string-rectangle ) ;; fast search and replace (global-set-key [f10] 'query-replace-regexp ) (global-set-key [f11] 'yank-rectangle ) (global-set-key [f12] 'goto-line ) (global-set-key [insert] 'yank) (global-set-key [remove] 'kill-region) (global-set-key [select] 'set-mark-command) (global-set-key [kp-f1] 'beginning-of-buffer) (global-set-key [kp-f2] 'end-of-buffer) (global-set-key [kp-f3] 'delete-other-windows) (global-set-key [kp-f4] 'kill-line) </code></pre> <p>Use autoload to set the major mode when programming</p> <pre><code> (fmakunbound 'c-mode) (makunbound 'c-mode-map) (fmakunbound 'c++-mode) (makunbound 'c++-mode-map) (makunbound 'c-style-alist) (autoload 'c++-mode "cc-mode" "C++ Editing Mode" t) (autoload 'c-mode "cc-mode" "C Editing Mode" t) (autoload 'objc-mode "cc-mode" "Objective-C Editing Mode" t) (setq auto-mode-alist (append '(("\.C$" . c++-mode) ("\.cc$" . c++-mode) ("\.c$" . c++-mode) ("\.h$" . c++-mode) ("\.m$" . objc-mode) ("\.pl$" . perl-mode) ) auto-mode-alist)) </code></pre> Here are some very useful key mappings that I have used for the last 15 years for writing code. Why press 3 keys at once to do what a function key can do. There may be issues on a Mac. Just go to preferences, keyboard, and disable the function keys. If these keys do not work for you (may not work as advertised on a Sun Solaris/Sparc based computer keyboard or other funky keyboard) then use M-x describe key to find out what your function keys are mapped to and change the contents of [].


(global-set-key [f1 ] ‘indent-region           ) ;; search-forward-regexp
;; one key undo
(global-set-key [f2 ] ‘undo                    )

;; macros save lots of time
(global-set-key [f3 ] ‘call-last-kbd-macro     )
(global-set-key [f4 ] ’start-kbd-macro         )
(global-set-key [f5 ] ‘end-kbd-macro           )

;; if you program rectangle operations save time
;; use C-space to set the mark
;; then move the cursor to define th rectangle.
;; takes a little experience to get this work right but after that
;; you can’t live without rectangles
(global-set-key [f6 ] ‘clear-rectangle         )
(global-set-key [f7 ] ‘delete-extract-rectangle)
(global-set-key [f8 ] ‘kill-rectangle          )
(global-set-key [f9 ] ’string-rectangle        )

;; fast search and replace
(global-set-key [f10] ‘query-replace-regexp    )
(global-set-key [f11] ‘yank-rectangle          )

(global-set-key [f12] ‘goto-line               )

(global-set-key [insert] ‘yank)
(global-set-key [remove] ‘kill-region)
(global-set-key [select] ’set-mark-command)

(global-set-key [kp-f1] ‘beginning-of-buffer)
(global-set-key [kp-f2] ‘end-of-buffer)
(global-set-key [kp-f3] ‘delete-other-windows)

(global-set-key [kp-f4] ‘kill-line)

Use autoload to set the major mode when programming


(fmakunbound 'c-mode)
(makunbound 'c-mode-map)
(fmakunbound 'c++-mode)
(makunbound 'c++-mode-map)
(makunbound 'c-style-alist)
(autoload 'c++-mode  "cc-mode" "C++ Editing Mode" t)
(autoload 'c-mode    "cc-mode" "C Editing Mode" t)
(autoload 'objc-mode "cc-mode" "Objective-C Editing Mode" t)
(setq auto-mode-alist
      (append '(("\.C$"  . c++-mode)
                    ("\.cc$" . c++-mode)
                    ("\.c$"  . c++-mode)
                    ("\.h$"  . c++-mode)
                    ("\.m$"  . objc-mode)
                    ("\.pl$"  . perl-mode)
                    ) auto-mode-alist))
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