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From: eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Bug in s4.el init file
Message-ID: <22a53eb1!3d57@snark.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 88 11:40:03 GMT
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In email, ford@kenobi writes:
>In kenobi!/u/gnu/emacs/lisp/term/s4.el, you wrote:
>> ;; by: Eric S. Raymond == {ihnp4,rutgers,seismo}!cbmvax!snark!eric
>>
>> (define-key esc-map "9" 'beginning-of-buffer)		;'Begin'
>> (define-key esc-map "0" 'end-of-buffer)		;'End'
>
>This (obviously) causes meta-0 and meta-9 to do completely different
>things than their documented meanings, and I don't see any reason for
>it.  What good are digit-arguments if they can only contain the digits
>1 through 8?

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...
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