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Article #9019M-W
From: Kyle Jones
Date: Fri, 29 May 1992 00:03
Date: Fri, 29 May 1992 00:03
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Brendan Kehoe writes: > If it please the court, could I give a persuasive argument that the > binding of M-W should go back to copy-region-as-kill and NOT do > vm-show-no-warranty? Everywhere but in vm M-W gives you an easy way > to copy a region [particularly when you're not using it under X]; I > got nailed with the warranty information [of which I'm well aware] at > least three times a day until I took the binding out. The copy-region-as-kill binding is actually M-w. M-W only works because Emacs will use the downcased binding of a string if the original binding is undefined. An accursed, confusing misfeature in my opinion. I wish there were at least a way to turn this off.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f6829,67cd91c8ceeac921 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6829,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-05-28 12:53:06 PST Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug Sender: bug-vm-request@uunet.uu.net From: kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net (Kyle Jones) Date: Thu, 28 May 92 20:03:20 -0400 Message-ID: <9205290003.AA13811@wendy-fate.UU.NET> Subject: M-W References: <199204280417.AA21708@lisa.cs.widener.edu> Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wendy-fate.uu.net!bug-vm Lines: 13