RE: C-j considered harmful (not really)

[Drew Adams]

> > `C-j' _IS_ newline. OK, some people don't know that. But 
> > most programmers of UNIX, Linux, C, etc. do know it, and
> > others can surely learn it - no biggee. It
> > is elegant to use the key to self-insert, the same way it 
> > is elegant to use the key `a' to insert an `a' character.
> 
> Fine, but note that `C-j' already has different 
> non-self-insert-newline semantics in other modes:

I did not say that `C-j' should _always_ be self-inserting.

The same is true for `a' or `A' and so on - such keys are often bound to other
commands in various modes.