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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
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Subject: Re: Help needed with xterm translations
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Date: 1 Feb 89 15:51:08 GMT
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> where in the doc (if anyplace) is this all discussed?

It's buried in Appendix B of "X Toolkit Intrinsics - C Language Interface".
Sorry; this is really a terrible description to which to have to refer
mortal users, but we've not yet had time to write the "users guide".

The specific statement about "most specific first" actually appears
in the first example (bottom of page 123 in my copy).  It certainly
deserves better treatment :-)