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Re: key map entry for shift-return?


From: Alan Mackenzie
Subject: Re: key map entry for shift-return?
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 13:51:10 +0000 (UTC)
User-agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-RELEASE (i386))

Hi, Xah!

In gnu.emacs.help Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 8, 2:31?am, Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi All,

>> What's the key map entry for shift-return?
>> (as in the one for just return is "\C-m")

> this is a weak point in emacs. For detail, see:

> ? The Confusion of Emacs's Keystroke Representation
>  http://xahlee.org/emacs/keystroke_rep.html

> several people have given you answer on how to represent shift-return.

> i wanted to add that, key combo like Shift Return is better avoided,
> because there's another complexity in emacs with the Enter/Return key,
> somewhat tied to Ctrl+m in complex ways. The upshot is that when
> trying to define keys with return, you might run into all sort of
> problems or puzzles.

Hey, stop being so enigmatic!  I think the OP only wants Shift Return
for his own use, which should be OK.  So please tell him (and me) what
this other complexity is.

Thanks!

>  Xah

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



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