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Re: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL" |
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Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:49:29 +0100 |
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"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
> I had to consult Webster to see what canonical really means ....
See <http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/canonical.html>.
> Now let me see if I understand this... - here is then another question
> around this:
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> As I understand it now the preferable way to define a key is (of course)
> always to use a canonical representation. Maybe it even can not be done in
> any other way?
The canonical representation is the one that works on most if not all
systems (with tty input normally being the most restrictive). All other
representations of the key are supposed to be translated through
function-key-map.
Andreas.
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Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, address@hidden
SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."
- What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL", Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/01/03
- Re: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL", Richard Stallman, 2007/01/04
- RE: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL", Drew Adams, 2007/01/04
- Re: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL", Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/01/04
- Re: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL", Edward O'Connor, 2007/01/04
- Re: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL", Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/01/04
- Re: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL", Andreas Schwab, 2007/01/04
- Re: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL", Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/01/04
- Re: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL",
Andreas Schwab <=
- Re: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL", Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/01/05
- Re: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL", Richard Stallman, 2007/01/05
- Re: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL", Richard Stallman, 2007/01/04
Re: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL", Stephen Leake, 2007/01/05