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> From: Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 15:55:38 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> Isn't the purpose of Emacs to eliminate arguments over keybindings?
> Every Emacs user can customise their bindings to their own personal
> preferences.

That's the idea, yes.  But some people tend to argue a lot about the
default settings, for reasons that totally evade me in the context of
Emacs, whose customization features and extensibility are really
limitless.