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M-W

#9019
From: Kyle Jones
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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From: kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net (Kyle Jones)
Date: Thu, 28 May 92 20:03:20 -0400
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