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From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org>
Subject: Re: Indenting code: C-M-\ v C-x C-q
Date: 11 Nov 2003 22:44:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7efzgud1h3.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3fb13b2d@news.seqnet.net

"Siegfried Heintze" <siegfried@heintze.com> writes:

> Why are there two
> keys to do the same thing?

because you see two keys.  perhaps there are others you don't
see (that do the same thing).  what this means is that finding
the thing is the reward, but keys are simply keys, names are
simply names, fashion is simply fashion.  go to the root.

> Why do perl and elisp require C-M-\ and
> everything else require C-x C-q? emacs drives me crazy sometimes.

see "fashion".

thi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-11 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-11 19:34 Indenting code: C-M-\ v C-x C-q Siegfried Heintze
2003-11-11 20:26 ` Stephen H. Westin
2003-11-11 21:44 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen [this message]
2003-11-11 23:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-14 21:06   ` Ole Laursen
2003-11-14 21:14     ` Ole Laursen
2003-11-14 21:55       ` Stefan Monnier

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