From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Keybinding styles Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:00:08 +0300 Message-ID: <83pmt99ktj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lf4dnk0z.fsf@gmail.com> <87wnnr2rgn.fsf@gmail.com> <83k0jql32w.fsf@gnu.org> <87tuim2bys.fsf@gmail.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23296"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: andremegafone@gmail.com, theophilusx@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, john@yates-sheets.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 16 07:02:35 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mQjXf-0005ti-0X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 07:02:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55440 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mQjXc-0006Rd-A4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 01:02:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43096) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mQjVa-0005d9-Du for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 01:00:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39622) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mQjVZ-0000qD-Dd; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 01:00:25 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2271 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mQjVJ-0006nD-En; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 01:00:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:15:00 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:274788 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: eliz@gnu.org, theophilusx@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, > monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, john@yates-sheets.org > Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:15:00 -0400 > > Do we have an opportunity? Maybe, but I tend to doubt it. I tend to > think that doing this correctly is a big job; a simple search and > replace will get confused and make mistakes. IMO, it is not a simple job. We need to find a way of reliably identifying key bindings and the functions they invoke in the manual. It will likely require changes to the Texinfo sources and most probably the resulting Info file will look somewhat differently, so we need to consider how this affects other Info readers (or decide that we don't care?).