Re: A code editor with auto-indentation ?

[ABrady <xunil kc rr com>]

On 21 Mar 2003 21:51:49 +0100
Julien Olivier <julo altern org> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm an almost happy Emacs user. What I really LOVE in emacs is the
> fact that you can automatically indent code using TAB (by
> automatically I mean that you press TAB once and the code is put at
> the correct columne, without needing to press TAB several times).
> 
> The problem is that Emacs has some bugs/problems:
>  - It can't open files located in non-UTF paths.

?

>  - It has weird keybindings (CTRL-W to cut, CTRL-Y to paste, nothing
>  to
> copy, F10-f-s to save, F10-f-e to exit...)

Save=CTRL-X CTRL-S
Exit=CTRL-X CTRL-C
SaveAs=CTRL-W
Copy= META-W

>  - There is no way to make a search or to repeat this search using a
>  key
> combination.

Search=CTRL-S

>  - It uses the X11 clipboard so that you can't select something and
> paste over it.

?

>  - Selecting several lines of code and pressing a key to REPLACE the
> selected characters doesn't work

I had trouble with this one, too, if I'm reading what you're saying
right. See below for a possible answer to it, one I never bothered to
look into.

> So my question is: is there any other code editor with the auto-indent
> feature and which doesn't have the bugs I wrote upper ? Or,
> alternatively, is there something like kvim (a vim module for KDE) but
> using GNOME and Emacs ?

info emacs

There's a section about key bindings. Also, with the exception of
searching, everything I put above is located in the menus for the
version I'm using, the version I last used, the version I used years
ago and every version in-between. I discovered searching by accident
because I've never read the info page. There may be a key sequence for
repeating the search, or a means to add it. And there may already be a
solution to all of the things you've mentioned that I don't know what
you mean as well.

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