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charset="UTF-8" thank you. On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 3:00 PM Stefan Kangas wrote: > tags 1111 fixed > close 1111 28.1 > thanks > > xah lee writes: > > > When doing a describe-key on C-, emacs prints > > instead. Similar for any other special key whose macro notation are > bracketed by > > angle brackets. e.g. , , , , etc. Where, emacs > puts the > > entire thing inside angle brackets instead of the more traditional of > modifier > > followed by dash followed by key name. > > > > Although these are identical as far as kbd function is concerned, but > wouldn't > > it be more intuitively consistent by using C- instead of ? > > This is now the case in Emacs 28, from NEWS: > > ** Modifiers now go outside angle brackets in pretty-printed key > bindings. > For example, 'RET' with Control and Meta modifiers is now shown as > 'C-M-' instead of ''. Either variant can be used > as input; functions such as 'kbd' and 'read-kbd-macro' accept both > styles as equivalent (they have done so for a long time). > > I'm therefore closing this bug report. > --0000000000003ef86b05ccdef622 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
thank you.

On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 3:00 PM= Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> wrote:
ta= gs 1111 fixed
close 1111 28.1
thanks

xah lee <xah@xahlee.= org> writes:

> When doing a describe-key on C-<backspace>, emacs prints <C-b= ackspace>
> instead. Similar for any other special key whose macro notation are br= acketed by
> angle brackets. e.g. <down>, <F6>, <return>, <kp-= 1>, etc. Where, emacs puts the
> entire thing inside angle brackets instead of the more traditional of = modifier
> followed by dash followed by key name.
>
> Although these are identical as far as kbd function is concerned, but = wouldn't
> it be more intuitively consistent by using C-<key> instead of &l= t;C-key>?

This is now the case in Emacs 28, from NEWS:

=C2=A0 =C2=A0 ** Modifiers now go outside angle brackets in pretty-printed = key bindings.
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 For example, 'RET' with Control and Meta modifiers is= now shown as
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 'C-M-<return>' instead of '<C-M-return&g= t;'.=C2=A0 Either variant can be used
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 as input; functions such as 'kbd' and 'read-kbd-m= acro' accept both
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 styles as equivalent (they have done so for a long time).

I'm therefore closing this bug report.
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