From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
psainty@orcon.net.nz, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Round-tripping key definitions
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 10:25:44 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilwqqjx3.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv4k8a1q1l.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 17 Nov 2021 15:38:24 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> > so either we keep `?\C-i` as 9 and introduce a new syntax
>> > for "character i with a control modifier", or we change the value and
>> > risk breaking some programs (tho maybe we can auto-fix the vast
>> > majority with appropriate heuristics)).
>>
>> That would break a lot of old code.
>
> I thought so too, but I've been playing with a quick&dirty patch to
> see how much breakage it introduces and it seems it's not nearly as
> bad as I thought. I'm starting to believe that maybe we could pull it
> off, tho I haven't had enough experience with it yet to be sure.
Removing the correspondence between ctrl modifier and the ASCII control
character would at the very least break the xwidget code in a
non-trivial manner, a and probably a lot of comint-related code too,
just to name a few.
It would also break `teco.el', a fun toy implementing the TECO text
editor inside GNU Emacs.
I have no interest in updating the xwidget code if this change is made.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-18 2:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-13 4:58 Round-tripping key definitions Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-13 14:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-13 14:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-13 15:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-14 0:33 ` Phil Sainty
2021-11-14 14:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-14 15:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-11-14 17:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-14 18:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-14 18:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-14 18:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-14 22:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-15 5:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-15 7:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-15 8:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-15 21:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-16 7:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-17 8:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-16 4:06 ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-17 20:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-18 2:25 ` Po Lu [this message]
2021-11-18 2:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-18 2:58 ` Po Lu
2021-11-18 11:16 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-18 12:31 ` Po Lu
2021-11-19 4:44 ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-18 9:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-14 0:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-14 14:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-15 4:53 ` Richard Stallman
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