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From: brisco@caip.rutgers.edu (Thomas Paul Brisco)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: gnumacs bindings
Message-ID: <4369@caip.rutgers.edu>
Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 17:25:58 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 18 17:25:58 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Sep-87 04:17:19 EDT
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In article <28500016@ccvaxa> aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP writes:

>>/* Written  2:35 pm  Sep 14, 1987 by rich@oxtrap.UUCP in ccvaxa:comp.emacs *
>>In article <14653@topaz.rutgers.edu> ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
>>>Of course, it is stretching it to think that BACKSPACE means help.
>>
>>The BACKSPACE key is a terrible misnomer.  It is really a C-h key and
>>of course this stands for HELP. ;-)
>>
>>rich.
>
>Help remove language dependent biases!
> 
>^H doesn't have any mnemonic value for help, if you are French.

	If we were French, we wouldn't be reading this (;->).

	After years of using different flavors of Emacs(tm tm tm tm),
I've found the best help key to be "M-X help<CRLF>" - it is mnemonic,
and easy to understand.
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