Ok let's get things going with some weird and perhaps some not so weird questions. Has anyone gotten trackpad gestures to work with Emacs? I don't mean some new kind of Mac, I mean the text environment for Unix-like systems, especially GNU/Linux. I know they have mouse bindings, and I can use gestures to read lines, but not much more. I know not to really expect too much, as it doesn't use the standard controls, but I just wondered. Also, applications like Emacs clear the screen, and use the full screen to work in. In Linux this doesn't matter, the top and bottom of screen commands work as expected. In the Mac terminal however, it just acts like a long scrolling list, which for some things really rules, but I'd also like to navigate as on a standard screen, so the top of screen command actually takes me to the top of the displayed screen, not the top of the scroll area. Does that make sense? By the way, I will give a tip: turn on the "Use option key as meta" option in terminal preferences, then Emacs keybindings will work. I'd appreciate any other hot terminal tips anyone has, as I come from Linux, so feel right at home, or at least in familiar enough surroundings. I got MacPorts working, a very nice system. I feel particularly intrigued by a thought from an Apple engineer I read somewhere. He said: "If you go looking for something Unix and do not find it, then we have failed. But on the other hand, if you do not go looking for something Unix and find it, we have also failed." or words to that effect. Brilliant!
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