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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 07 Apr 1997 08:52:40 +0200
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sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes:

> The question is what's more important: Doing the design (precious
> little as it may be in this case) right or keeping FSFmacs
> compatibility.

I have sent a similar report to <bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu>.

> You have to decide on policy to decide the question.  Steve is
> qualified to do that.  We aren't.

I am sure Steve will well take an advice in the matter, which he may
or may not heed.  The fact is that we cannot allow the packages to do
*whatever* they like, even if for GNU Emacs compatibility.  What if a
package redefined `C-v' or up arrow?  For me `M-g' is equally
important a binding.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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I'm sure they'll listen to reason! -- Neal Stevenson, _Snow Crash_

