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From: jw@astgb1.UUCP (John Woodruff)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Assigning key bindings.
Message-ID: <167@astgb1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Jul-86 19:57:13 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 10 19:57:13 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jul-86 04:20:34 EDT
References: <14754@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Advanced Sys Technology Corp; Greenbelt, MD
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Summary: Drawbacks to "roll your own" keybindings

In article <14754@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, karl@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Karl Berry.) writes:
>               Abut two days after I first learned about
> Emacs, I realized I would never be able to understand the
> default key bindings, and started writing my own.

The problem is that then everyone has their own bindings, and
you are lost if you sit down at another user's login.  It's
worse if they're all coming to you for help!

I recomend that site administrators consider establishing "better"
bindings that are already developed, such as those that emulate
other editors, and make incremental changes if the need is real.
That way emacs'es are at least partially transportable.

We use Unipress emacs with slightly modified DEC EDT bindings.