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GNU Emacs availability information, 22 Nov 1985
Copyright (C) 1985 Richard M. Stallman
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malfunction. I may make an improvement if I consider it worth
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can spare time for it. I hope to keep Emacs stable now, and
avoid putting much time into it, so I can work on other parts of
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