From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Why all the Alt bindings by default? Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:14:04 -0700 Message-ID: <7974CDA26E1F4315AAAA28790B978D5D@us.oracle.com> References: <6F1ADCC148584A4A80CF9FF727BE1915@us.oracle.com> <834nyvd34s.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319660062 19797 80.91.229.12 (26 Oct 2011 20:14:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:14:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 26 22:14:18 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJ9re-00054u-Mg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:14:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52386 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJ9rd-0003OB-TL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:14:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47902) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJ9ra-0003Ns-QN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:14:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJ9rZ-0006PG-KU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:14:14 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:36712) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJ9rX-0006MN-Q1; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:14:11 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.4/Switch-3.4.4) with ESMTP id p9QKE9KG006833 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:14:10 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p9QKE9RW009299 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:14:09 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt107.oracle.com (abhmt107.oracle.com [141.146.116.59]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id p9QKE4R2016337; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:14:04 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:14:04 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <834nyvd34s.fsf@gnu.org> Thread-Index: AcyUDEhGOvRn6bfUTduwod9PkoXnuwAD255g X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6109 X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090208.4EA86A12.00CB:SCFMA922111,ss=1,re=-4.000,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.117 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145602 Archived-At: > > emacs -Q in Emacs 24, visit an Emacs-Lisp buffer, `C-h b'. > > Do the same in Emacs 23.3. > >=20 > > In Emacs 24 (but not in 23.3) I see lots of Alt bindings=20 > > that presumably (?) insert characters: > >=20 > > A-SPC =A0 > > A-! =A1 > > A-" Prefix Command > > A-$ =A4 > > A-' Prefix Command > > A-* Prefix Command > > A-+ =B1 >=20 > I cannot reproduce this, FWIW, not with the recipe shown above. Read Stefan's replu. He provided the necessary clarification: hit `C-h = b' twice.