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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Emacs META?
Date: 24 Jun 1997 09:07:06 GMT
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In article <5omgni$1ob@fridge-nf0.shore.net>,
nvp@shore.net (Nathan V. Patwardhan) writes:
> Nathan Dorfman (nathan@senate.org) wrote:
>
>: Besides its easier to type Alt+F than reach over to Escape, press it,
>: then go back and press F. Experiment for yourself.
>
> Oh. That's probably the same reason why I think C-3 f is good for me
> as I've mapped a whole bunch of Meta-based commands to C-whatever, so
> C-3 seems natural now.
I think this is disasterous. You end up being able to do loads
of wonderful things at your local site, but being unable to use
emacs on other machines. I've stopped customizing emacs for this
reason - changing the keyboard IMHO is a mis-feature - ever since
I lost my config file.
> --
> Nathan V. Patwardhan
> nvp@shore.net
>
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !