[Info-vax] Some questions on software for VMS 7.3 VAX

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Tue Jan 26 10:46:15 EST 2016


On 2016-01-26 15:18, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <n87h6l$ik8$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>>
>> Huh?
>> ^X ^F should be "Find file". It should never move forward. And at the
>> filename prompt, you can type '?' to get a list of matching files, or
>> TAB, which should complete the filename. And if no completion is
>> possible at all, it will also list available options. (I don't know why
>> hb suggested ^X ^F space, as that will just insert a space in the filename.
>
>     This is emacs we're talking about.  So ^X^F is whatever you
>     programmed it to be.  Most of the time I add new key definitions to
>     my emacs setup, but I have found it usefull to overwrite a few.

Oh, definitely. Emacs is fully customizable. But it's meaningless to 
even discuss something if we start from a customized setup, as that 
means we have nothing common to base the discussion on. So I would 
assume we're talking based on the default bindings.

	Johnny




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