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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: function-keymap: criticism
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Date: 8 May 88 05:08:59 GMT
References: <8805071503.AA06117@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
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In article <8805071503.AA06117@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> "SDRRTR::SDRRTR::MRGATE::\"MRGATE::PSI%SCRVX2::BLUE::IN%\"davis@blue.sdr.slb.COM\"\""@sdr.slb.COM writes:
>	5) Why, oh why, is M-[ bound to backward-paragraph. How many
>	keyboards with function keys are there that *do not* use this
>	as an escape sequence ? Especially given the ANSI standard for
>	cursor arrows...... 

M-[ has been the Emacs backward-paragraph command for as long as there
has been Emacs.  I think Emacs is older than the ANSI standard you
cite.  I believe Emacs was developed at MIT around 1976.  Its command
set is basically a conglomeration of the various popular TECO macro
sets that were in use at the time, so I suspect that M-[ was in use
even earlier.


Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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