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Re: Moving kbd to subr.el


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Moving kbd to subr.el
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 16:01:55 +0300

> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 11:52:15 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
> cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, stefankangas@gmail.com, 
>     emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > Why does kbd generate the leading backslash, though?
> >
> 
> Because it's the way Emacs uses to disambiguate symbols that could be 
> understood as something else:
> 
> (defun \0 () (interactive) (message "zero"))
> M-x 0 RET

In the context of key sequences, it will be mighty confusing, I think.



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