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   > It's technically possible for emacs to have sane key binding, it's
   > just political not do so.

   I refuse to call that sort of timing-based key sequence difference
   "sane".  For example, it makes bug reports containing key lossage
   useless since the key lossage fails to mention the delays between key
   presses.

Makes using the minibuffer to look at what you pressed useless too...