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Re: emacs key bindings reserved for the user C-c [a-zA-Z]
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Lars Brinkhoff |
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Re: emacs key bindings reserved for the user C-c [a-zA-Z] |
Date: |
Sat, 06 Oct 2012 22:29:37 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
Ali Tofigh <address@hidden> writes:
> 1) How long has this convention been in place and when where the major
> modes changed accordingly?
In NEWS.1-17:
> GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 26-Mar-1986
> Copyright (C) 1986 Richard M. Stallman.
>
> Changes in Emacs 17
>
> * C-c is always a prefix character.
>
> Also, subcommands of C-c which are letters are always
> reserved for the user. No standard Emacs major mode
> defines any of them.
I also checked the ITS EMACS info file (which loads just fine in
recent versions of info):
ftp://ftp.trailing-edge.com/pub/ftp.its.os.org/ai/info/emacs.147
But apparently, C-c had a different meaning back then.