bug#13219: 24.3.50; missing `...' in Emacs manual

[Stephen Berman]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:22:48 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:24:21 -0800
>> Cc: 13219@debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>> > It is the convention in the manual not to insert `..' around single
>> > function keys which are already printed like <this>.  Not a 
>> > bug (and no bike-shedding please).
>> 
>> See attached screenshot.  Are you perhaps trying to make a virtue (and a
>> convention) out of mistake?  Do you honestly think it is more readable to 
>> have
>> these exceptions?
>
> Are you referring to the highlight?  If so, who or what did the
> highlighting of `..' strings in that screenshot?  I don't see such
> highlighting in "emacs -Q".
>
> We had this argument before.  <FOO> is a name of a single key.  We
> don't quote single keys named by their labels, only key sequences.

Actually, the convention appears to be: enclose single keys labels that
are not single characters in angle brackets but quote single keys labels
that are single characters (as well as labels of key sequences);
cf. (emacs) Dired Navigation:

"For extra convenience, <SPC> and `n' in Dired are equivalent to `C-n'."

Steve Berman