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Re: emacs key bindings reserved for the user C-c [a-zA-Z]


From: Lars Brinkhoff
Subject: Re: emacs key bindings reserved for the user C-c [a-zA-Z]
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 22:29:37 +0200
User-agent: 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.




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