Re: (kbd) for key bindings

[Miles Bader]

Steve Revilak <address@hidden> writes:
> I'd never heard of (kbd) before, but I like that representation a lot.
> It's the same syntax that describe-key outputs, and it's also the same
> syntax that people use when writing about emacs key bindings (e.g.,
> the emacs tutorial).  If you understand what "C-x C-f" means, then you
> basically know how to supply arguments to kbd.

I'm not sure kbd is really the best "universal solution" though.

The fact that it's a macro can be annoying and surprising (you can't
funcall it, for instance) and its key syntax seems worryingly ad-hoc --
the "output format" that kbd purports to parse is meant for easy human
readability, not unambiguous machine parsing.

-Miles

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