Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?

["Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> I'm curious. Why is it a good idea that `C-b' and `left' are no longer bound to
> the same command?

C-h k <left> gives:

<left> runs the command backward-char, which is an interactive
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

C-h k C-b gives:

C-b runs the command backward-char, which is an interactive built-in
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I don't see any difference in my emacs-version "23.2.1".



> I'm not asking about the difference; I can see that from the doc strings.  I'm
> wondering why we've broken their longstanding correspondence.

Major or minor modes however may set their own bindings.  Perhaps you
have a buffer in a mode that defines a command named left, and which
binds <left> to it?

You can check the binding of the current modes with C-h m

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