Re: Bug with S-Tab in keymaps

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > here's an embryonic `canonicalize-event' (note the American spelling
>> > ;-).  It works, e.g. for
>> Why all the mucking about with symbols?!  [E.g. 'C-M-u ]
> My main point is that there should BE a standard way of representing key
> sequences.

There is, actually, but it's only partly formalized.
See `reorder_modifiers' in src/keyboard.c for example.

> At the moment there is not.  So that if I type <shift>-<tab>
> on my keyboard, function-key-map turns this into #x2000009.

Sounds like a bug: as mentioned, shift-tab should be mapped by
function-key-map to `backtab'.

> Whether the standard I tentatively proposed is the right one or not can
> be debated.  I'd appreciate people agreeing with me that a standard is
> wanted.

No argument here.


        Stefan