bug#10942: 24.0.94; (emacs) `Modifier Keys'

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> The menu at (emacs) `Key Bindings' says that node `Modifier Keys'
> explains "Using modifier keys in key bindings."

I think that's an ambiguous way of saying it -- the node is not about
how to make key bindings, but how to use modifier keys if you have
bindings for them.

I've now removed the "in key bindings".

> Yet one of the most important things to know about "using modifier keys
> in key bindings" is missing from that node.  Instead, it is said in node
> `Init Rebinding', and it is easy to miss there:
>
> Using a string "only works for ASCII characters and Meta-modified ASCII
> characters."

Since that node is about usage and not binding, it would be
inappropriate to mention it there.

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