* bug#39254: 26.3 and 27.0.50; The manual is inconsistent about the <Alt> modifier and C-x 8
@ 2020-01-23 13:42 Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2020-01-24 8:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Jorge P. de Morais Neto @ 2020-01-23 13:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 39254
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'.
This occurs on Emacs 26.3 and 27.0.50, both installed via an updated
Guix on Debian buster.
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* bug#39254: 26.3 and 27.0.50; The manual is inconsistent about the <Alt> modifier and C-x 8
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
2020-01-25 11:36 ` Jorge P. de Morais Neto
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2020-01-24 8:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jorge P. de Morais Neto; +Cc: 39254-done
> 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.
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