It is not possible to use SLIME using only the keyboard. It is, however, possible to navigate menus and dialogues without using the mouse.
If a window containg a menu bar has the keyboard focus (the window manager
will usually highlight a window with keyboad focus in some way), you can
activate the menu bar by pressing the key.
If your keyboard does not have a menu key you should be able to use
instead. The first item in the menu bar
will then be highlighted: the CDE version of Motif highlights menu
items by making them appear recessed while other versions of Motif
highlight items by making them appear raised. You can use the left
and right arrow keys to choose a menu item and pull down the
corresponding menu by pressing
,
or the down-arrow key. You can also
pull down a menu without highlighting its title by pressing its
mnemonic which is underlined in the menu. Once you have
pulled down a menu you can navigate between the items in it using the
up and down arrow keys. You can activate a selected item by pressing
or
or
activate an item without first selecting it by pressing its mnemonic.
Some menu commands can be invoked without taking the trouble to
navigate through the menu structure using special combinations of keys
called keyboard accelerators. The only keyboard accelerator
used by SLIME is the
combination
used to invoke context-sensitive help (see
Chapter 4).
Controls are grouped into control groups. You may switch between
control groups by pressing , which will
move the focus from left to right and top to bottom, or by pressing
, which will
traverse the control groups in the reverse order. You can navigate
within a group using the arrow keys and activate a selected component
using the
key. The
key will activate the selected default
button in a dialogue (usually OK) regardless of which control
has been selected.