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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 4d03f70b7f0 1/4: Correct doc strings for x-*-keysym
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 13:32:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ttl65s4f.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a5mysbi7.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Sat, 16 Mar 2024 18:43:12 +0800)

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 18:43:12 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > This loses the information about the meaning of the default value of
> > nil, doesn't it?  This leaves the user who looks at the default value
> > confused as to what that means.
> 
> I'll fix this, thanks.

Thanks.

> > Also, the "depressed" part at the end of the last sentence is not
> > right: a modifier reported in a key event cannot be "depressed", it
> > can only be "set".  Right?
> 
> In this context, "depressed" is interchangable with "pressed" or "set,"
> I think.  The X Keyboard Extension's preferred nomenclature uses
> "depressed."

Well, "depressed" is confusing when used in the context of talking
about variables and their bits.



  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-16 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2024-03-16  9:10   ` master 4d03f70b7f0 1/4: Correct doc strings for x-*-keysym Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-16 10:43     ` Po Lu
2024-03-16 11:32       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-03-21 10:30     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-21 12:42       ` Po Lu

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