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From: John Turner <turner@xdiv.lanl.gov>
To: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: dired diffs between XEmacs and notXEmacs
Reply-To: turner@lanl.gov

This is probably a dumb question, but since I've been using NTEmacs on
win32 platforms, I've noticed some differences in the keybindings
between the standard dired and tree-dired, which XEmacs uses.

The ones I've noticed are copy and rename, since I use those a lot.
On XEmacs they're c and r, while on NTEmacs they're C and R.
Frustratingly, c and r are bound to other things in NTEmacs (I can't
recall what, though).

Yes, I could change the bindings, but I'm just wondering why they
differ.  In fact, the comments in the Tree Dired info node talk about
how it was to be the dired in Emacs 19.

Questions:

o What happened?  Why did these bindings diverge?  Why is Tree Dired
  not in notXEmacs?  OK, never mind that last one.  It's probably a
  long and bloody story.

o More importantly, should XEmacs change to synchronize?  Either
  answer has a downside.  One annoys current XEmacs users, the other
  annoys new users and those that go back and forth.

o Does Tree Dired work with notXEmacs?  If so, maybe that's what I
  should be doing.

Maybe not totally appropriate for the beta list, but it does deal with
an out-of-the-box incompatability between the two versions.

--
John A. Turner         |"Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence;
Los Alamos Natl. Lab.  |  sound is that cup, but empty;
e-mail: turner@lanl.gov|    noise is that cup, but broken."
                       |                        - Robert Fripp

