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From: nvp@shore.net (Nathan V. Patwardhan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Emacs META?
Date: 24 Jun 1997 13:34:08 GMT
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Brian Somers (brian@shift.utell.net) wrote:

: I think this is disasterous.  You end up being able to do loads
: of wonderful things at your local site, but being unable to use
: emacs on other machines.  

How so?  I don't see how a binding like: 
		(global-set-key "\C-cg" 'goto-line)
in my .emacs file will bring the world to a crashing halt.

Or maybe you thought I was referring to something else, in which case
the answer is, "no, I'm not doing that..."  :-)

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Nathan V. Patwardhan
nvp@shore.net