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> Cc: joaotavora@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:43:20 -0800
> 
> > I think I agree, but we are about 19 years late for that argument,
> > since this was introduced in Emacs 21.
> 
> Is it? I don't know how much would break if we fixed this misdesign, but 
> my gut feeling is "not muhc".

I wouldn't want even to consider this without a very good reason.
It's an obscure feature that doesn't bother anyone.