From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: namekuseijin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What does 'run' do in cperl-mode? Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:28:14 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <778053b8-d6ef-4f17-b4e7-b64b2713d1ea@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> References: <0ded5ecd-f5f6-4a8e-9d19-f61bf0401022@v39g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <86hcad9ar4.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217390282 9278 80.91.229.10 (30 Jul 2008 03:58:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:58:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 30 06:26:33 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KO3Gi-00073j-3f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:26:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36042 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KO2lw-0007ie-Lu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:54:44 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 189.60.59.171 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1217377695 12723 127.0.0.1 (30 Jul 2008 00:28:15 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:28:15 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=189.60.59.171; posting-account=AhEwOgoAAABfI1IAWWBiHDSU2pvzqVnt User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-BR; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160699 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:51:13 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56048 Archived-At: On 25 jul, 13:41, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > Please note that Alt is not the preferred prefix name for Emacs > purposes. =A0It'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