RE: Why all the Alt bindings by default?

[Drew Adams]

> > emacs -Q in Emacs 24, visit an Emacs-Lisp buffer, `C-h b'.
> > Do the same in Emacs 23.3.
> > 
> > In Emacs 24 (but not in 23.3) I see lots of Alt bindings 
> > that presumably (?) insert characters:
> > 
> > A-SPC                
> > A-!         ¡
> > A-"         Prefix Command
> > A-$         ¤
> > A-'         Prefix Command
> > A-*         Prefix Command
> > A-+         ±
> 
> I cannot reproduce this, FWIW, not with the recipe shown above.

Read Stefan's replu.  He provided the necessary clarification: hit `C-h b'
twice.