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In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0)
of 2010-05-08 on min
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10706000
configured using `configure '--prefix=/usr' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--without-sound' '-with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-optimize-sibling-calls' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--as-needed''
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value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.UTF-8
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value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
default enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: Emacs-Lisp
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erc-ring-mode: t
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erc-pcomplete-mode: t
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erc-button-mode: t
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erc-irccontrols-mode: t
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recentf-mode: t
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h e l l , SPC b u t SPC n o SPC l o n g e r SPC c a
n <return> <switch-frame> C-u C-c s C-g C-u C-c s C-g
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C-l <s-up> C-x 0 M-x r e <return>
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