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[Henry Lieberman <Henry at MIT-AI>]

In zwei in System 79.12, ZMail 40.7, Remote-File 2.0, LMFILE-Remote 5.0,
microcode 849, 60.45Hz, on Lisp Machine Eighteen:

The following forms fail to redefine the Meta-~ command in my Zwei init file.
They worked ok in systems < 79.

ZWEI:(SET-COMTAB *STANDARD-COMTAB*
		 '("~" COM-INSIDE-SQUIGGLES))

(SETQ *EMPHASIS-FONT-BEGIN* "~" *EMPHASIS-FONT-END* "~")

(DEFCOM COM-INSIDE-SQUIGGLES
	"Inserts a pair of tildes, leaving you inside them to type a symbol's name."
	()
        (INSERT-MOVING (POINT) *EMPHASIS-FONT-BEGIN*)
        (INSERT (POINT) *EMPHASIS-FONT-END*)
	DIS-TEXT)