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seberino@spawar.navy.mil (Christian Seberino) writes:

> If it is better in general for some reason then I'll do it.

a hook is a nook where the normal flow looks.
a surrounding-style rewrite is a whole 'nother book.
when the Programmer friendlily documents this tether
it's better to avoid xor and instead ior together.
otherwise, setq-default is the violent last resort;
probably indicates someone should file a bug report.

thi