From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 23247@debbugs.gnu.org, kaushal.modi@gmail.com
Subject: bug#23247: 25.0.92: Documentation bug about Control modified key bindings
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2019 09:12:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838sppmavz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tv8dkayz.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sat, 12 Oct 2019 21:41:40 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>, 23247@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 21:41:40 +0200
>
> >> But I am able to bind something like
> >>
> >> (global-set-key (kbd "C-S-n") #'previous-line)
> >>
> >> and have C-n and "C-N" call different commands.
> >
> > Did you try that on a text terminal as well?
> >
> >> Does that piece of information about Control-modified alphabetical
> >> characters need correction or clarification?
> >
> > Not sure we want to enter these details in a user manual. Also, "C-N"
> > and "C-S-n" are not the same thing in this context.
>
> I think it would make sense to at least mention these wrinkles in the
> user manual -- many people don't care about running Emacs in a terminal,
> and being able to bind shifted alphabetical characters opens up a whole
> new range of user-definable keystrokes.
It's OK to mention that, but please also add a note that this only
works on GUI frames.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-08 21:54 bug#23247: 25.0.92: Documentation bug about Control modified key bindings Kaushal Modi
2016-04-09 6:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-12 19:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-13 6:12 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-10-13 18:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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