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From: steven@cwi.nl (Steven Pemberton)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: gnumacs bindings
Message-ID: <70@piring.cwi.nl>
Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 08:10:06 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 22 08:10:06 1987
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In article <2506@xanth.UUCP> kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) writes:
> Here at ODU we have both DEL and BS bound to delete-backward-char,
> and we still have a help key: C-\.
> The Emacs lisp code does have C-h hard coded into in a few places
> but those were easily ferreted out.  Most of the problem was solved by
> modifying help.el and the changing the value of help-char. Finding
> and changing all references to C-h into the User's Manual a tiny bit more
> challenging.
Considering how configurable emacs is and is supposed to be, it is
really surprising how hardwired the C-h decision is (which is a real
pity, considering how fundamental it is). Just try for instance now to
bind help to a *two-key* sequence, like ESC-?, and then to get help
when using incremental search, for instance.

Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam; steven@cwi.nl