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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: jorge+list@disroot.org (Jorge P. de Morais Neto)
Cc: 39254-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39254: 26.3 and 27.0.50; The manual is inconsistent about the <Alt> modifier and C-x 8
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 10:13:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83eevps24d.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lfpyqof0.fsf@disroot.org> (jorge+list@disroot.org)

> From: jorge+list@disroot.org (Jorge P. de Morais Neto)
> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:42:59 -0300
> 
> Hi.  The manual section [[info:emacs#Modifier Keys]] says "the standard
> key bindings in Emacs do not include any characters with these modifiers"
> (referring to <Super>, <Hyper> and <Alt>).  However,
> [[info:emacs#Inserting Text]] says "a working Alt key acts like `C-x
> 8'".  Also, the wording in the latter manual section makes it seem that
> any key sequence starting with the `C-x 8' prefix works with <Alt>, but,
> according to my testing (with C-x @ a), that does not hold for `C-x 8
> RET'.

Thanks, I fixed these inaccuracies.





  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-24  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-23 13:42 bug#39254: 26.3 and 27.0.50; The manual is inconsistent about the <Alt> modifier and C-x 8 Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2020-01-24  8:13 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-01-25 11:36   ` Jorge P. de Morais Neto

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