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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Why all the Alt bindings by default?
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:14:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7974CDA26E1F4315AAAA28790B978D5D@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834nyvd34s.fsf@gnu.org>

> > emacs -Q in Emacs 24, visit an Emacs-Lisp buffer, `C-h b'.
> > Do the same in Emacs 23.3.
> > 
> > In Emacs 24 (but not in 23.3) I see lots of Alt bindings 
> > that presumably (?) insert characters:
> > 
> > A-SPC		 
> > A-!		¡
> > A-"		Prefix Command
> > A-$		¤
> > A-'		Prefix Command
> > A-*		Prefix Command
> > A-+		±
> 
> I cannot reproduce this, FWIW, not with the recipe shown above.

Read Stefan's replu.  He provided the necessary clarification: hit `C-h b'
twice.




      reply	other threads:[~2011-10-26 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-26 16:50 Why all the Alt bindings by default? Drew Adams
2011-10-26 17:02 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-26 17:13   ` Drew Adams
2011-10-26 19:16     ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-26 20:20       ` Drew Adams
2011-10-26 21:35         ` Tim Cross
2011-10-27  1:48           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-27  2:05             ` Tim Cross
2011-10-27  4:07           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-27  4:14             ` Tim Cross
2011-10-27  4:52               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-27  5:35                 ` Tim Cross
2011-10-27  8:24               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-27 12:19                 ` Tim Cross
2011-10-27 15:17                   ` Drew Adams
2011-10-27 15:33                     ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-27 15:43                       ` Drew Adams
2011-10-27 15:51                         ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-27 16:06                           ` Drew Adams
2011-10-27 12:28                 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-27 15:20                   ` Drew Adams
2011-10-28  0:25                     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-26 17:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-26 18:03   ` Drew Adams
2011-10-26 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-26 20:14   ` Drew Adams [this message]

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