Re: Brief keybindings (newbie)

[Günter Milde <milde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:34:51AM -0700, Steve Corwin wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been experimenting with jed while looking for an editor that runs 
> on Linux and supports the Brief keybindings.  Based on the web pages I 
> found I tried making a .jedrc file.  Here are its contents:
> steve@luke:~$ cat .jedrc
> if (BATCH == 0)
> {
>  %() = evalfile ("brief");       %% Brief Keybindings (MSDOS only!!)
>  () = evalfile ("/usr/share/jed/lib/brief.sl");
> }
> 
> I know that jed sees it because I get an error message when jed starts 
> that says "S-Lang Error: Undefined Name: ALT_CHAR is undefined".
> 
> Am I doing something wrong here, or is it true that jed only supports 
> Brief keybindings under MS-DOS?

I dont't know about this, but some vital variables are only defined in the
.jedrc file. So instead of creating a new one, you are supposed to copy the
jed.rc file that comes with jed to ~ and modify it to your needs.

BTW: you do not need the whole path to the brief.sl file, as long as it is
in the canonical place (i.e. within the jed_library_path).

Minimal variant:

 copy jed.rc to ~/.jedrc

change to

%  () = evalfile("emacs");       % Emacs-like bindings
() = evalfile ("brief");      % Brief Keybindings (MSDOS only!!)

try if it works in Linux and tell about problems.

Günter


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