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From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Chong Yidong' <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
	'emacs' <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
	'David De La Harpe Golden' <david@harpegolden.net>
Subject: Re: angle-bracket notation for keys
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:51:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C42CE97.8000308@alice.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F2FAB0D8A86F4210A042DD3D75C6921E@us.oracle.com>

Il 18/07/2010 3.54, Drew Adams ha scritto:
> [...]
> And unnecessary.  `<S-tab>' etc. used to (sometimes) be written `S-tab' or
> `S-TAB'.  But, sigh, function keys have always been written in Emacs (e.g. in
> Info) using angle brackets, IIRC.  Even Emacs 20's Info uses `<F1>' to represent
> the `f1' key, though it at least writes `f1' or f1 in *Help*.  Emacs 22 was
> "improved" to make this consistent - consistently ugly.
> [...]

C-INS
C-DEL
C-LEFT
C-RIGHT
F1-...
S-TAB

etc. etc.

Since *you*, developers, have spent much time discussing on the 
'attractiveness' of Emacs, this would be a simple step toward that :-).

Ciao,
Angelo.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-18  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-16  1:00 Selection changes Angelo Graziosi
2010-07-16  9:33 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-07-17 23:49   ` Angelo Graziosi
2010-07-18  1:54     ` angle-bracket notation for keys (was: Selection changes) Drew Adams
2010-07-18  2:07       ` angle-bracket notation for keys Miles Bader
2010-07-18  3:05       ` angle-bracket notation for keys (was: Selection changes) Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-18  5:42         ` Drew Adams
2010-07-18 17:21           ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-18 19:15             ` Drew Adams
2010-07-18 22:05               ` angle-bracket notation for keys Harald Hanche-Olsen
2010-07-18  9:51       ` Angelo Graziosi [this message]
2010-07-18 19:28     ` Selection changes David De La Harpe Golden
2010-07-18 22:39       ` Angelo Graziosi
2010-07-16 12:14 ` Angelo Graziosi

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