Why Proofreading is so important

April 20th, 2010 by Eric Cope

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8627335.stm

From the article.

An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cookbook after one recipe listed “salt and freshly ground black people” instead of black pepper.

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Emacs and key mappings

April 8th, 2010 by Eric Cope

I use Emacs a lot for programming. It is a very useful editor, arguably the best. One great feature is the ability to map keys (hot keys). It even maps keys to specific types of files (C, PHP, XML). I recently started using TCL. Emacs’s key binding for DELETE was effectively backspace. It was driving me nuts. I finally found a solution.

http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~uwp/download/.emacs

Here is the excerpt I wanted.

(add-hook 'tcl-mode-hook
 '(lambda ()
 (define-key tcl-mode-map [ delete ] 'delete-char)))

It took way too much googling to find this. Here were some of my key words: xemacs, tcl-mode, tcl-mode.el, key binding, key mapping, delete, default bahavior, major mode, override

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