I apologize in advance if this is deemed off-topic, but I will find
people in this newsgroup who share my interest: getting all other
programs in my Linux PC to work with Emacs keybindings (particularly
the navigation ones, C-e, C-a, C-n, C-p, C-k).

There is a wonderful Windows tool called XKeymacs that does this for
Windows apps, and I have been searching (in vain) for something like
that for Linux (or Xorg more generally). Perhaps someone here will
have a xmodmap script to do this, or know some obscure tool/workaround
to make it possible. I am aware of the "gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs""
workaround for GTK based apps, but programs where I do lots of editing
(like my Java mail client and OpenOffice) do not obey that file.

I'd appreciate any pointers.
Thanks!

On Oct 26, 9:33 am, YSK gmail.com> wrote:

On Oct 26, 8:29 pm, Xah Lee xahlee.org> wrote:

On Oct 26, 12:33 pm, YSK gmail.com> wrote:

I know what you mean. Frequently I go from Emacs to, say, Firefox, and
accidentally hit Emacs keys causing FF to try and print pages, open
new windows, select all, and so on. Actually, for FF, there's an
extension called Firemacs that might be interesting.

Anyhow, I think this is part of the reason there's so many tools
written for use within Emacs. For example, you mention your Java-based
mail client: you might have a look at Emacs' built-in email client
"rmail" as a possible replacement which would allow you to use the
familiar Emacs key combos. I'm guessing the EmacsWiki has info on many
such replacement elisp apps.

Quoth John gmail.com>:

This happens to me all the time too.

Interesting.

Windows users may find Xkeymacs interesting:

http://www.cam.hi-ho.ne.jp/oishi/indexen.html

Discussed here:

http://osdir.com/ml/emacs.windows/2004-01/msg00022.html

HTH.

Sebastian

John gmail.com> writes:

What happens to me all the time is that I hit C-x b and expect emacs switch to
the dvi or pdf viewer, or konqueror or whatever, or, if in such an application,
switch back to emacs...

I'd really love to see my x-applications "live" in an emacs buffer, but I was
told that that's difficult. On the other hand, I saw such an item on the emacs
ToDo list, so maybe there is hope.

Martin

John gmail.com> writes:

I'm going to try that. For right now I use the Emacs GTK key theme:

My .gtkrc-2.0:

gtk-font-name = "Dejavu Serif 10"
gtk-theme-name = "MurrinaNeoGraphite"
gtk-icon-theme-name = "Tango"
gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"
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John gmail.com> writes:

Yo, I just tried Firemacs, and C-x k does kill a tab. Awesome!!!

Joel

With doc-view.el you can view your dvi/pdf files directly inside Emacs.

Stefan

Stefan Monnier writes:

Yes, but I'm really after something else. There will always be applications
that are "outside" of emacs but nevertheless great to use.

Apart from that, I'd be surprised if docview were as fast as a traditional
viewer for larger documents. (Especially when I'm editing them, so caching
won't help)

Martin