From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Portable key sequences
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:07:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k6f36ygo.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87psowmyeo.fsf_-_@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Sun, 20 Nov 2005 00:48:31 +0900")
> As far as I know there is no portable way to express all key sequences
> in all Emacsen, even of v21 or later vintage. Even if XEmacs were
> disposed to give up the regularity and readability of the vector of
> lists of symbols representation, the fact remains that for at least 8
> years that representation has been the one guaranteed to work for
> arbitrary sequences of gestures, and only a minimum of effort has been
> put into string representations. Which string representations we
> support has varied over the last few years, I believe.
Emacs started supporting the vector of lists format in Emacs-20 AFAIK.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-20 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-17 22:29 Rant: key sequences aren't specified in the elisp manual Alan Mackenzie
2005-11-17 23:17 ` Edward O'Connor
2005-11-19 15:48 ` Portable key sequences [was: key sequences aren't specified...] Stephen J. Turnbull
2005-11-20 17:07 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-11-17 23:19 ` Rant: key sequences aren't specified in the elisp manual Lennart Borgman
2005-11-17 23:19 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-11-17 23:30 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-19 23:26 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-27 0:31 ` Richard Stallman
2005-12-11 5:03 ` Richard Stallman
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