From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs? Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 10:25:48 -0600 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3EDCCC0C.80508@yahoo.com> References: <3ED67422.7060305@math.ku.dk> <20030529214728.GA24984@gnu.org> <200305300010.h4U0AiNY018227@rum.cs.yale.edu> <84r86hggd8.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <3ED79506.5050604@yahoo.com><3EDBC154.40009@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054658832 19719 80.91.224.249 (3 Jun 2003 16:47:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 16:47:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 03 18:47:04 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19NEwC-00057D-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 18:47:04 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19NFDM-0007PN-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 19:04:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19NEos-0006wH-H3 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 12:39:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19NEkz-0005mf-Il for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 12:35:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19NEhR-0004W9-0z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 12:31:49 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19NEde-0003tr-HN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 12:27:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19NEZw-0003Lc-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 18:24:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19NEZK-0003J0-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 18:23:26 +0200 Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14639 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14639 David Kastrup wrote: > Kevin Rodgers writes: >>That seems to require the following patch; is this a known bug in `kbd'? ... > Well, what about "KEYS should be a string constant" don't you > understand? All of it, apparently. :-) > It is documented right there in the piece you have quoted > in the patch, and it is probably this way for efficiency reasons. I can't see any significant efficiency savings in restricting such a simple macro's sole argument to a constant. -- Kevin Rodgers