5 Emulation

By default the LispWorks Editor emulates GNU Emacs. This is often unusable for programmers familiar only with MS Windows keys and behaviour: for instance, they will expect Ctrl+X to invoke a common command (Cut), but instead Ctrl+X begins many of the Emacs key sequences.

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

When using MS Windows emulation the main differences are:

• An alternate set of key bindings for the commonly-used commands.
• The abort gesture for the current editor command is Esc , not Ctrl+G .
• Inserted text replaces any currently selected text.

5.1 Using MS Windows Emulation

5.2 Key bindings

5.3 Replacing the current selection

5.4 Emulation in Applications