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- Message-ID: <9209160110.AA19851@thymus.synaptics>
- Subject: Re: New user finds bugs? Or maybe I'm just confused.
- Reply-To: daveg@synaptics.com
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:10:00 -0700
- From: daveg@thymus.synaptics.com (Dave Gillespie)
- Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
- Path: sparky!uunet!wendy-fate.uu.net!help-lucid-emacs
- Sender: help-lucid-emacs-request@lucid.com
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- > * ^W^Y^W doesn't work
-
- The sequence C-x C-x C-x C-x (exchange-point-and-mark, twice) can be
- used to re-enable the region. This workaround is easy enough that I'd
- vote for leaving C-y the way it is, not activating the yanked region,
- just to reduce screen clutter.
-
- > * The SPACE key terminates an i-search-forward and self-inserts!!!
-
- This sounds like an interaction with auto-fill-mode.
-
- > emacs: Alt_R (0x39) generates Mod1, which is generated by Meta.
- > Unfortunately, this is exactly the behaviour I want. I want Meta-x
- > and Alt_R-x to be indistinguishable.
-
- I agree here. Lucid GNU Emacs needs to be more forgiving about this.
- Does anybody know why lemacs checks this while other programs don't
- seem to mind?
-
- -- Dave
-