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From: pc@ukc.ac.UK (Peter Collinson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Deficiency in the translation mechanism
Message-ID: <25566.601931976@kite>
Date: 27 Jan 89 19:19:36 GMT
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Organization: Computing Lab, Univ. of Kent, Canterbury, UK
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You miss the point.

Suppose the user has bound ^U to previous-line() because they believe
that ^U means `UP' rather than ^P being `PREVIOUS'.  The current
mechanism does not allow me as an application writer to trap that... I
will have trapped and replaced the binding

	^P -> previous-line()

I want to replace the ACTION

	previous-line()

by something and not the bindings.