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From: Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: xah lee <xah@xahlee.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#631: the M- notation suggestion
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:59:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1KONS7-0006Yc-SW@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FAD16B45-9476-4589-A7BD-F8F4ACEB180A@xahlee.org> (message from xah lee on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:49:01 -0700)

    The Alt+?key? or Ctrl+?key? notation is universal among  
    Windows and Linux.

I think you mean "GNU/Linux".  Linux has no user interface and its
documentation has no reason to refer to any specific keys.

Our convention for the GNU system is C-x and M-x, which is what you
are proposing to change.

    Using a notation that contains the actual label on keyboard's keys is  
    much easier to understand. A beginning computer user, can read the  
    ?Ctrl+?key?? notation and figure out which keys to press.  

There is some validity in that argument.

For the Emacs Manual I have a feeling this would be very wasteful.
But maybe it would be ok for some of the help commands, maybe even for
all of them.







  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-31  1:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-30  8:49 bug#631: the M- notation suggestion xah lee
2008-07-31  1:59 ` Richard M Stallman [this message]
2008-07-31  2:53   ` xah lee
2008-07-31 22:01     ` Richard M Stallman
2008-08-01  2:10       ` xah lee
2008-08-01  6:53       ` xah lee
2008-07-31 22:01     ` Richard M Stallman
2008-08-01  2:07       ` xah lee
2008-07-31 17:30   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-01  6:39     ` Yavor Doganov
2008-08-01  7:42       ` xah lee
2008-08-01  8:37       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
     [not found]       ` <mailman.15692.1217578047.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-04 11:11         ` Joe Wells
2008-08-04 11:33           ` xah lee
2008-08-04 11:38           ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)

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