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From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL"
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:57:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <459E210D.4070501@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <je8xgh3is6.fsf@sykes.suse.de>

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>   
>> I had to consult Webster to see what canonical really means ....
>>     
>
> See <http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/canonical.html>.
>   

Thanks ;-)

>   
>> Now let me see if I understand this... - here is then another question
>> around this:
>>
>> As I understand it now the preferable way to define a key is (of course)
>> always to use a canonical representation. Maybe it even can not be done in
>> any other way?
>>     
>
> The canonical representation is the one that works on most if not all
> systems (with tty input normally being the most restrictive).  All other
> representations of the key are supposed to be translated through
> function-key-map.
>   

But then there are string representations too.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-05  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-04  1:21 What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL" Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-04 17:58 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-04 18:19   ` Drew Adams
2007-01-04 18:46   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-04 18:53     ` Andreas Schwab
2007-01-04 19:04       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-04 19:28     ` Edward O'Connor
2007-01-04 19:28       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-04 20:02         ` Andreas Schwab
2007-01-05  0:26           ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-05  9:49             ` Andreas Schwab
2007-01-05  9:57               ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2007-01-05 19:09             ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-05  0:31     ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-05  7:18   ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-05  9:11     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-06  2:54     ` Richard Stallman

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