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C-c LETTER

#98539
From: David J. MacKenzie
Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 02:24
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>DanJ> * Please do not define `C-c LETTER' as a key.  These sequences are
>DanJ> reserved for users; they are the *only* sequences reserved for
>DanJ> users, so we cannot do without them.

> 	[ moderator's note: sendmail.el does NOT use C-c LETTER.
> 	  It does use C-c C-LETTER and C-c Punctuation which are
> 	  quite different.   thanx -len
> 	]

Every time I read that passage of the elisp manual, I, like the
original poster, interpreted it to mean C-c ANY-SEQUENCE, not what Len
interpreted it to mean and the authors probably intended, C-c
ALPHABETIC-CHARACTER.  This is a bug in the manual, in my opinion.  It
should emphasize that it is referring only to alphabetic characters.
This subtlety is not clear enough currently.
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