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

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> "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>.
>   

Thanks ;-)

>   
> > Now let me see if I understand this... - here is then another question
> > around this:
> >
> > 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.
>   

But then there are string representations too.