Re: Emacs Keybindings for early LISP keyboards and iMac BT?

Thanks! Looking forward to other comments as well.  c-m-h-RESUME.

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 6:20 PM Christopher Stacy <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think most of your questions I covered, but you might want
> to understand that the keyboards were not so much "Lisp keyboards".
> They were Emacs keyboards.   For people who are mainly editing
> Lisp programs.  (So, put a pair of parenthesis on an easy to reach
> non-shifted key... on our Emacs keyboard.)
>
> The main keys for operating/programming the Lisp Machine
> were the SELECT (or SYSTEM) key - which was the application
> switcher (sort of like alt-tab on Mac/Windows) the BREAK (SUSPEND)
> key for forcing entry into the debugger, the ABORT key for throwing
> out to toplevel command interpreter / REPL).  I think there was also
> a RESUME key for leaving the debugger and proceeding.
>
> Some of the keys were recognized at input time.
> Like BREAK.  But you could force it with control-BREAK.
> Likewise, RESUME, where c-m-h-RESUME would invoke
> an app written in Joshua AI to auto-compose and email
> your resume, based on observing your behavior in the
> debugger.   But I am getting old am on a lot of medication
> just at this moment...
>
> Almost everything else was Emacs-style commands in the debugger.
> Such as  c-N/c-P stack walking, c-B show backtrace. etc.
>
>

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