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the wages of not using \[---] style documentation

#9652
From: Dan_Jacobson
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1991 01:31
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[VM 5.31] I believe that the, er, VM author's resistance to use the

    `\[COMMAND]'
          is replaced either by a keystroke sequence that will invoke
          COMMAND, or by `M-x COMMAND' if COMMAND is not bound to any
          key sequence.

form of documentation has paid off big time [I marked all 1150 of my
mailbox messages---ok, no big deal, but one day somebody might delete
that many...]

Exhibit A: C-h m output [evil falsehood]:
       M m - mark the current message
       M u - unmark the current message
       M M - mark all messsages
       M U - unmark all messsages <---ssspelled wrong too

Exhibit B: C-h b output [reality]
M u             vm-clear-all-marks
M m             vm-mark-all-messages
M U             vm-unmark-message
M M             vm-mark-message
M n             vm-next-command-uses-marks
M N             vm-next-command-uses-marks

Ladies & gentlemen of the jury, I urge you to convict Kyle on several
counts of munged keybinding advertisement, and implore him to use
Jamie Z's recently posted the-right-way style.
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