GNU bug report logs - #631
the M- notation suggestion

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: xah lee <xah <at> xahlee.org>

Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:00:03 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: xah lee <xah <at> xahlee.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#631: the M- notation suggestion
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:07:37 -0700
On Jul 31, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Richard M Stallman wrote:

For the Emacs Manual I have a feeling this would be very wasteful.
But maybe it would be ok for some of the help commands, maybe even for
all of them.


Xah wrote:
    Wasteful, as in too much effort and little benefit?

RMS wrote:
I mean reducing what's visible on a page, and wasting paper.
But someone could try it and see.


who's doing this?

and what about making the menu show the Alt+ and Ctrl+ notation? Is  
anyone in particular doing it?

PS give me a hint perhaps on how to do the latter. I might experiment  
on both.

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

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