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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: master 5b1109394c: ; * lisp/edmacro.el: Minor doc fixes.
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 22:17:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmn5TXT2mRvwWKAg5E-1=G394VdeVpCKkX+Sy7oe-ew=BQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8335fwkd4i.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Stefan, I don't understand this change.  Is it no longer "kosher" to
> use RET, TAB, SPC, etc. in our doc strings?  Why do we need to quote
> these simple keys?

The reason for fontifying them is consistency, so that keybindings are
always displayed the same in *Help*.

AFAIU, such consistency is important for effective UX design.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-22 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-22 14:05 master 5b1109394c: ; * lisp/edmacro.el: Minor doc fixes Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-22 14:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-22 15:57   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-22 20:17 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2022-06-23  5:43   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-23  9:15     ` Stefan Kangas

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