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Re: What does 'run' do in cperl-mode?

Subject: Re: What does 'run' do in cperl-mode?
From: namekuseijin <namekuseijin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:28:14 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help

On 25 jul, 13:41, Ted Zlatanov <t...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Please note that Alt is not the preferred prefix name for Emacs
> purposes.  It's Meta, abbreviated M (e.g. M-x), for two reasons:
>
> 1) Meta can be mapped to keys other than Alt
>
> 2) Meta can be invoked with ESC as well, which is very handy in a
> terminal session (I actually use ESC all the time even in a graphical
> session)

Of course, the main reason being that calling the M-x commands "emacs"
is sweet, while "altex" sounds lame. :P

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