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Subject: Some answers
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Date: Tue, 23-Sep-86 00:13:11 EDT
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From: rms@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard M. Stallman)

1. Copying keymaps with copy-keymap is supposed to make the
two keymaps unshared.  It works in version 18.  Maybe it was
broken in 17.  It is not easy to broadcast the new code
sicne it involves several functions that have been changed.

2. It should not be necessary to set meta-flag by hand.
If it is necessary, it means the termcap entry is missing
the :km: flag.  Just put it in.

3. Invoking rmail from the .emacs file does not work in version
17, but does work in version 18.  The problem happens
in startup.el where it switches to initial-major-mode.
Put around this a save-excursion and then set-buffer to
*scratch* before setting the mode.

4. Version 18 will start ftp distribution (think of this as beta test)
as soon as a few of copyright assignments come in.  I hope it will be
by the end of this week.