Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!think!barmar
From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Bug in s4.el init file
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Date: 3 Jun 88 17:52:12 GMT
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In article <22a53eb1!3d57@snark.UUCP> eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>I never get bit by this because (like most ex-gosmacs users) I always use C-u
>as my arg prefix. I didn't even know ESC was a valid alternate arg-prefix
>until investigating this bug report of yours. Nevertheless, here I am
>officially notifying the world and the gnumacs maintainers that they might want
>to change this...

That's a bit egocentric of you.  I don't know which came first,
Meta-<digit> or C-u, but I know that both were available in the
original ITS EMACS as long ago as 1979, when I first started using it.
If Gosling Emacs didn't support Meta-<digit>, it's the first such
implementation I've heard of.  I think it would be wrong to change a
long-standing, standard Emacs key binding because a couple of obscure
terminals happen to send that for a function key (I assume that's what
started this, as I missed the early discussion).

Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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