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From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: The symbol `forward' in GNU Emacs.
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Date: 20 Oct 88 16:51:02 GMT
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In-reply-to: karl@contact.umb.edu (Karl Berry.)

In article <737@contact.umb.edu>, karl@contact (Karl Berry.) writes:
>Does anyone know what this symbol is, or where it came from? I cannot find it
>anywhere in the C or elisp code. Its function cell, value cell, and property
>list are all nil, which makes me wonder why it exists.

A grep of mh-e.el reveals (amonf others):

  (setq mh-next-direction 'forward)

Now I believe (shaky lisp though) that 'forward will at least make a
symbol-table entry for forward.  My guess is you use mh-e.  Do I get
the $64?
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