5 Emulation

By default the LispWorks Editor emulates GNU Emacs. This is often unusable for programmers familiar only with Microsoft Windows keys and behavior: for instance, a selection is not deleted on input, and most of the commonly used keys differ.

The LispWorks editor can be switched to emulate the Microsoft Windows model instead of Emacs.

When using Microsoft Windows editor emulation the main differences are:

• An alternate set of key bindings for the commonly-used commands.
• The Alt key activates the menu bar, and does not act as Meta when used as the only modifier key.
• The abort gesture for the current editor command is Esc, not Ctrl+G.
• Inserted text replaces any currently selected text.
• The cursor is a vertical bar rather than a block.

5.1 Using Microsoft Windows editor emulation

5.2 Key bindings

5.3 Replacing the current selection

5.4 Emulation in Applications

LispWorks Editor User Guide (Windows version) - 17 Aug 2017