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bug#631: the M- notation suggestion
From: |
xah lee |
Subject: |
bug#631: the M- notation suggestion |
Date: |
Mon, 4 Aug 2008 04:33:01 -0700 |
The change suggested is only about in emacs manual, emacs tutorial,
and in menus.
There is no proposal to change emacs lisp's keyboard macro or elisp
functions.
Xah
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On Aug 4, 2008, at 4:11 AM, Joe Wells wrote:
xah lee <xah@xahlee.org> writes:
The proposed change doesn't actually effect elisp code. It is primarly
esthetic in nature.
This is not true. There are many places in the Emacs Lisp code which
recognize the M- and C- notation.
First, there is the read syntax (I'm using Emacs 22.1):
?\M-A ⇒ 134217793
?\M-\C-b ⇒ 134217730
"\M-A" ⇒ "\301" (yes, this is a bit different behavior for M-A)
Then, there is the convention of making symbol names with prefixes for
use in key bindings:
M-f3
M-mouse-1
M-drag-mouse-2
M-double-mouse-2
Then, there is the lovely kbd macro for use in key bindings:
(kbd "C-M-<down>") ⇒ [C-M-down]
Then, there is the use of the M- and C- notation by edit-kbd-macro.
Then, there are the key-description, single-key-description, and
read-kbd-macro functions:
(key-description [?\M-3 delete]) ⇒ "M-3 <delete>"
There is also the text-char-description function.
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Joe
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