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Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:

> On Jan 28, 10:25 am, "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> wrote:
> i think the other oddity is F1 for help. Is that due to Windows
> influence?

F1 was help in ISPF (IBM mainframe) for a long time
before MSFT.

If you remember IBM and MSFT got together and created a
standard called SAA.  I'd guess that's how F1 moved from IBM to
Windows.

Well despite all that, I bound F1 to compile.
Seemed like a good idea at the time.
I don't need a special help key for emacs.