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24.0.97; Bad doc about minor mode keys: (elisp) `Keymaps and Minor Modes' |
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Sat, 19 May 2012 14:00:19 -0700 |
What (elisp) `Keymaps and Minor Modes' says is horribly wrong:
"The key sequences bound in a minor mode should consist of `C-c'
followed by one of `.,/?`'"[]\|~!#$%^&*()-_+='.
(The other punctuation characters are reserved for major modes.)"
Absolutely not. The `C-c' minor-mode keys, yes. Minor-mode keys in
general, no.
What it is correct to say about minor-mode key bindings is said,
carefully, in (elisp) `Key Binding Conventions'. Nothing more
restrictive than that. And it is better to provide a link to that page
than it is to try to repeat that information in `Keymaps and Minor
Modes'.
Regarding `C-c' key sequences: Few of them are reserved for major modes.
The rest of them are allocated to minor modes or to users (`C-c' +
letter). That's the way the C-c-plus-punctuation restriction should be
presented: Minor modes get all C-c-plus-punctuation bindings not
mentioned in the major-mode list, and those are the only `C-c' keys they
get.
But the real doc bug here is that it says that minor-mode keys are
limited to `C-c' followed by a punctuation mark from the list shown.
Not at all. Minor modes, like major modes, are by no means limited to
keys on prefix `C-c'!
In GNU Emacs 24.0.97.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
of 2012-05-16 on MARVIN
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
Configured using:
`configure --with-gcc (4.6) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include'
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Re: bug#11522: 24.0.97; Bad doc about minor mode keys: (elisp) `Keymaps and Minor Modes' |
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Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:31:17 +0800 |
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"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
> "The key sequences bound in a minor mode should consist of `C-c'
> followed by one of `.,/?`'"[]\|~!#$%^&*()-_+='.
> (The other punctuation characters are reserved for major modes.)"
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> Absolutely not. The `C-c' minor-mode keys, yes. Minor-mode keys in
> general, no.
Fixed, thanks.
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