"C-x 4 a" and "C-x a" wildly incongruous, C-x 4 C-r, etc.

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From: Dan_Jacobson
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 1990 16:17

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Peeves: One would expect the `4' to imply doing the same command in
the other window, but:
C-x a           append-to-buffer
C-x 4 a         add-change-log-entry-other-window

ESC .           find-tag
C-x .           set-fill-prefix
C-x 4 .         find-tag-other-window

Also it's about time C-x 4 C-r was find-file-read-only-other-window in
the official version [everybody's old gripe].

In dired there is no find-file-read-only key.  One would think "r"
would be a good choice, but that means "rename"..., which one would
think would be called move, on the "m" key...

[yes, I know I can customize all these for myself.  And yes, I know
about monkey-directory]
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Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM  Naperville IL USA  +1 708-979-6364

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