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> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:55:29 +0200
> 
> > This behavior is so old in Emacs that I'd suggest to write a new
> > command that does what you want, and leave the original one alone.
> > Interested users could then rebind C-t to run that new command.
> 
> Fair enough, I'll do that.  Would you suggest to make it public on the
> Emacs Wiki?

I'd rather you posted it here, as diffs to the appropriate Emacs Lisp
file.

> But old code does not equal used code, I really like to argue that
> above behaviour would make Emacs an (infinitesimal) bit better ;-).

Well, adding the new version will make everybody happy, so it's a
win-win situation.