Timeline for Find out the purpose of a Prefix Command listed in describe-bindings
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| Jun 27, 2016 at 3:16 | comment | added | Drew | I see. RMS's paper introducing Emacs was written in 1981, and he didn't start writing GNU Emacs until 1984 (the initial release was March 1985). And I'm pretty sure this feature was present in GNU Emacs by the mid-to-late 80's, and in Emacs 18, at least. (I was using it then. But of course, memory can fail ;-).) I can't vouch for whatever existed at MIT before there was GNU and before GNU Emacs was well distributed. Anyway, yes, it is a good feature (and it should be made to work in the few areas where it still does not). | |
| Jun 27, 2016 at 1:41 | vote | accept | Kevin | ||
| Jun 26, 2016 at 23:58 | comment | added | MAP | @Drew: Yes, "when it came out". I've been using emacs since the late 70's. I know this wasn't part of emacs when I first used it...although I do seem to recall it in the news somewhere around emacs 19. | |
| Jun 26, 2016 at 22:33 | comment | added | Drew |
BTW: You say "when it came out", but Emacs has always had this feature. However, in vanilla Emacs there are still a few places where it doesn't work - C-s C-h, for instance (that works with Isearch+).
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| Jun 26, 2016 at 21:52 | vote | accept | Kevin | ||
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| Jun 26, 2016 at 21:47 | comment | added | phils |
n.b. As per duplicate stackoverflow.com/q/10330510 it is very slightly more reliable to use <f1> instead of C-h for this purpose. I still use C-h out of habit, though :)
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| Jun 26, 2016 at 21:27 | comment | added | MAP | @Kevin: The other answer is more comprehensive, we were actually typing them at the same time. But, I really enjoyed seeing the addition of this trick when it came out and often find it useful. | |
| Jun 26, 2016 at 20:56 | comment | added | Kevin | What a clever trick, typing a second C-h. Thank you. That's a good enough answer for me. | |
| Jun 26, 2016 at 20:55 | vote | accept | Kevin | ||
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| Jun 26, 2016 at 20:43 | history | answered | MAP | CC BY-SA 3.0 |