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bug#17362: 24.4.50; inconsistent key notation: `ESC' vs `<ESC>'
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Josh |
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bug#17362: 24.4.50; inconsistent key notation: `ESC' vs `<ESC>' |
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Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:55:30 -0700 |
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 10:27:03 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> > Cc: dmoncayo@gmail.com, 17362-done@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > > > Eli, are you saying that you have replaced <delete>, <backspace>, etc.
> > > > everywhere with <DELETE>, <BACKSPACE>, etc., or that you think it is
> > > > appropriate to do so?
> > >
> > > Only for BACKSPACE (and, of course, only in the manual). It's still
> > > "Delete" (because that's the label on the key). ESC and TAB and SPC
> > > and RET were always in caps, so they stay in caps.
> >
> > <Delete> is not how Emacs refers to the key in help. And neither is
> > <BACKSPACE>. Emacs help calls these <delete> and <backspace>, AFAICT.
>
> I'm not talking about help, I'm only talking about the manual. The
> bug report was about inconsistencies in the manual. At least that's
> how I perceived it, and that's the only issue I set out to fix.
Sorry to be mentioning this after you committed your changes, but I
wanted to comment about the impact of these changes on new users.
Difficulty specifying key bindings correctly is fairly common among
newer users, and I think that this difficulty is worsened by
occurrences in the documentation of non-canonical (with respect to
kbd arguments) key notation. There's an EmacsWiki page[0] about key
binding notation that reads in part, "Use C-h k to find out how Emacs
describes the key sequence, and copy & paste that into your kbd
string." It would be good if the info manual used the same notation.
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?KeyBindingNotation
Josh
- bug#17362: 24.4.50; inconsistent key notation: `ESC' vs `<ESC>', (continued)
- bug#17362: 24.4.50; inconsistent key notation: `ESC' vs `<ESC>', Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/29
- bug#17362: 24.4.50; inconsistent key notation: `ESC' vs `<ESC>', Drew Adams, 2014/04/29
- bug#17362: 24.4.50; inconsistent key notation: `ESC' vs `<ESC>', Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/29
- bug#17362: 24.4.50; inconsistent key notation: `ESC' vs `<ESC>', Drew Adams, 2014/04/29
- bug#17362: 24.4.50; inconsistent key notation: `ESC' vs `<ESC>', Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/29
- bug#17362: 24.4.50; inconsistent key notation: `ESC' vs `<ESC>', Drew Adams, 2014/04/29
- bug#17362: 24.4.50; inconsistent key notation: `ESC' vs `<ESC>', Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/29
- bug#17362: 24.4.50; inconsistent key notation: `ESC' vs `<ESC>', Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/29
- bug#17362: 24.4.50; inconsistent key notation: `ESC' vs `<ESC>', Drew Adams, 2014/04/29
- bug#17362: 24.4.50; inconsistent key notation: `ESC' vs `<ESC>', Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/29
- bug#17362: 24.4.50; inconsistent key notation: `ESC' vs `<ESC>',
Josh <=
- bug#17362: 24.4.50; inconsistent key notation: `ESC' vs `<ESC>', Drew Adams, 2014/04/29
- bug#17362: 24.4.50; inconsistent key notation: `ESC' vs `<ESC>', Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/29
bug#17362: 24.4.50; inconsistent key notation: `ESC' vs `<ESC>', Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/28