Emacs key bindings in DrRacket?

Question

How are we supposed to configure DrRacket so that it does not use Emacs key bindings? Like I type C-s and it just saves the code instead of bringing up the search line. Or I use C-x C-f and it won't open another file. The DrRacket documentation claims to not use Emacs bindings but it obviously does.

Moschatel

just to be clear, you were actually wanting to turn off the emacs behavior, while the accepted answer describes how to turn it on, right? (Either way, I understand why the answer is accepted since the description of how to turn it on also makes it clear how to turn it off, but the apparent mismatch confused me initially.) – Venial

Answer 1

You want to disable the check box, Enable keybindings in menus.

Unfortunately this checkbox is a bit buried:

1. Open the Racket Preferences dialog.

2. Click the Editing tab.

3. There's a row of sub-tabs for that. Click the General sub-tab.

4. A few items down you should see the Enable keybindings in menus check box. Un-check it.

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