From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#50804: Command substitutions for keys without keymaps Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 17:41:51 -0700 Message-ID: References: <877df3stzx.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3083"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 50804@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 28 02:42:33 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mV1Cb-0000bt-4t for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2021 02:42:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46552 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mV1CZ-0008C8-2S for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:42:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47034) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mV1C6-0008AI-Pq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:42:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:59892) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mV1C6-0003w6-4Z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:42:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mV1C6-0005pf-10 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:42:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Kangas Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 00:42:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 50804 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 50804-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B50804.163278971822404 (code B ref 50804); Tue, 28 Sep 2021 00:42:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 50804) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 Sep 2021 00:41:58 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43202 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mV1C2-0005pI-MM for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:41:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pj1-f49.google.com ([209.85.216.49]:37752) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mV1C1-0005p3-OI for 50804@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:41:58 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pj1-f49.google.com with SMTP id me5-20020a17090b17c500b0019af76b7bb4so489077pjb.2 for <50804@debbugs.gnu.org>; Mon, 27 Sep 2021 17:41:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:from:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=BYvSqKR9q7TykT9xzlcG0MYmx3wUk+vwVDBjjEInw0w=; b=Zsz55MQ39aKEmBn5GS7qt+FVEiK1Hr9c/ANvpxtLJUT7T3Xi6snM+4YOxAY+txRNQJ 9ior58UQ2hJdK7Kvq7HmL1bx861IvUS7JcZeBeMzugB1bBw4g+NEoqP/TU3ONf3U7uA9 ha6Sb/4ZGJlpJ8VJCAXlcivkSSTcWIHjIgEza4DKdyPMc4IqLWXFiNY+NMNak9foZkdD BOven4Mc293nX1XnCH6aAfZe+AnGhEG6YW1R8RPFsCnLq1munIRl71AfFfENIPUZfF4x 88nIj9TDg17K853MXra4Y0zTWuJTW3fjp/DvuXg+HA1JQazjxlY8Iyrh9l+h7g84uNnz KgOQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM531bg7oj3ZGo9msv6f9hKs7JzbckGJJSS9r5nsryN5WG5cAekHqJ BKUwAsi/AKU1rRpqlu7zgVh4uL7XYtd8UGP6bwg= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyo9/6sR/KoPrJadXOXYvbx+VqUnG1/NLAwu7Wpla3CS/9vLhA5Jc29sWGhAhygmK/jcHVVgduUMGYUbtpudjc= X-Received: by 2002:a17:90b:3805:: with SMTP id mq5mr2148642pjb.143.1632789711987; Mon, 27 Sep 2021 17:41:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Mon, 27 Sep 2021 17:41:51 -0700 In-Reply-To: <877df3stzx.fsf@gnus.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:215721 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: >> I'm not sure about the notation. Perhaps "\\[[...]]" is okay, or >> perhaps we want some other delimiter. > > What about... \\`C-h' > > Hm. Possibly too confusing. Using some other delimiters than "\\[]" would probably be nice though, because: (substitute-command-keys "\\[[C-h]]") =3D> "M-x [C-h]" (substitute-command-keys "\\`C-h`") =3D> "\\=E2=80=98C-h=E2=80=98" The second one will be printed as "\=E2=80=98C-h=E2=80=98" on old versions,= which isn't perfect but not too bad. Even if the extra "\" is distracting, it is at least not actively misleading...