On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:53:34PM -0900, Tim Johnson wrote:
Hello:
You won't be able to use them to provide prefix arguments to commands.
For example, `M-7 C-n' moves down 7 lines, but not if M-7 is bound
to something other than digit-argument.
Correct. However, on my keyboards, 'C-7 C-n' does the same and is
more natural to my hands. It would appear that rebinding 'M-7' wouldn't
be too awful, you think?
I find the M-5 (for arbitrary values of 5) binding very convenient
when I want to evaluate an expression and put the result at point,
M-7 M-: is easier to type than C-7 M-: similarly for commands like
"shell-command-in-region" etc.