Re: Emacs with Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg116801] Re: Emacs with Mathematica
- From: Sebastian <sebhofer at gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 05:02:25 -0500 (EST)
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I also miss a lot of editing features from emacs in the Mathematica UI, especially matching of parentheses, indentation and such. These features would really boost productivity for me. I really find it sad that Wolfram doesn't work on the interface at all (at least it seems so to me). I tried the Mathematica modes for emacs but found them pretty unuseful for everyday work, although they may be useful for writing packages. A few shortcuts can be customized by modifying KeyEventTranslations.tr (located in [Mathematica Dir]/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/TextResources/X/ under Linux). The syntax is pretty straightforward and can easily be deduced by reading the file. Note that you have to avoid keybinding conflicts, otherwise your customized shortcuts may not work. Also look at MenuSetup.tr for existing keybindings. HTH Sebastian