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Re: A plea for peace...

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From: David J. MacKenzie
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1992 18:27
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> The current version of Epoch (4.0p2) defines a keymap in
> .../epoch-lisp/epoch.el, and immediately binds that to C-z using
> global-set-key.  Several pieces of software (such as lightbrite, to
> name one example) know this, and so use global-set-key to bind to
> things like "C-z ".  This presents a problem for people and sites like
> this one, where anything bound to C-z other than suspend-emacs or nil
> is unacceptable, since it means that every file which makes this
> assumption will have to be modified.

Also, it means you can't use VIP-mode to ease VI users into Epoch.
I like using VIP occasionally because it makes line-oriented changes
easier, but I have to exit and restart epoch when I'm done because it
uses C-z to switch between emacs mode and vi mode so I lose my epoch
keybindings.
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From: djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie)
Subject: Re: A plea for peace...
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Date: Thu, 18 Jun 92 18:27:08 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland
In-Reply-To: Garrett.Wollman@uvm.edu's message of Wed, 17 Jun 1992 17:02:42 GMT
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