Inconsistent behaviour of emacs user interface

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From: Francesco Potorti`
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 1994 12:40

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   I have been using gnu emacs for several years now and I find some
   aspects of the user interface to be annoyingly inconsistent.  It's
   like this:

   Emacs sometimes asks you to choose one item from a one-entry-per-line
   table by moving the cursor onto the corresponding line and pressing a
   specified key.  Typically these are situations where alpha-numeric
   keys don't insert themselves but have a special meaning.

I am working on a list of consistent keybindings for read-only buffers
like dired, buffer list, info, finder mode, view mode, rmail.
Suggestions welcome.
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	    Francesco Potorti`	| pot@CNUCE.CNR.IT (Internet)
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