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Re: close buffer with keystroke?
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Oliver Scholz |
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Re: close buffer with keystroke? |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:08:41 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) |
marcuirl <marcuirl@imap.no2this.cc> writes:
> Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com> writes:
>
>>> Hmm. It's supposed to be quote marks, hopefully it appeared as such!
>>> I'm using pan as my newsreader for the first time tonight, so it might
>>> have got that wrong.
>>
>> Oh ok. I just asked because many programing languages and other things
>> attach special functions and commands to the ` key -- so I didn't know
>> if you were doing something bizarre. :-D
>
> Theres been a whole discussion on some other newsgroup as to why *nix
> people like `blahblahblah' and not 'blahblahblah' or "blahblahblah"
>
> Its personal I guess!
[...]
I don't know about other POSIX or non-POSIX programs. But in an Emacs
context ` and ' are used by convention when referring to symbols.
[Personally I detest it, but I don't have to like a convention in
order to follow it.]
Oliver
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Re: close buffer with keystroke?, Alan Mackenzie, 2003/09/17
Re: close buffer with keystroke?, Nicolas Neuss, 2003/09/18