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Re: Emacs's M-‹key› Notation vs Alt+‹key› Notation

Subject: Re: Emacs's M-‹key› Notation vs Alt+‹key› Notation
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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:23:49 -0700 PDT
Newsgroups: comp.emacs, alt.religion.emacs

On Jul 31, 8:32 pm, David Hansen <david.han...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:18:20 -0700 (PDT) "xah...@xxxxxxxxx" 
> <xah...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Better, is actually to drop CUA mode support, highlight selection
> > support, mouse support, as well as variable with font support and
> > image support. I think due to these features we are getting a flood of
> > dumb questions in recent years.
>
> Brilliant!  W/o the dumb questions the experienced users would have
> desperately needed time to explain the Meta key to the lower and medium
> experienced users.
>
> We are so close to a solution of the ``meta problem''!

Unfortunately, Richard Stallman seems to have been influenced by dumb
users. He's actually thinking it's a good idea!

http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.bug/browse_frm/thread/c92887cbc7c6f843/

  Xah
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