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Re: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL"
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:02:49 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux)

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:

> Which actually works, yes. But isn't there a point in telling about
> M-backspace instead since M-DEL is made in the platform specific
> translation in function-key-map?

No, M-DEL is the canonical key.  Anthing defined via function-key-map is
non-canonical.

Andreas.

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