From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: key-binding values Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 01:05:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1126070335 8542 80.91.229.2 (7 Sep 2005 05:18:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 05:18:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 07 07:18:52 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECsJY-0001qM-Qz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 07:17:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECsO5-0002E7-CN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 01:22:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ECsNZ-00027y-ST for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 01:21:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ECsNW-00026q-O4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 01:21:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECsNW-00023z-IC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 01:21:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ECsDj-00015r-49 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 01:11:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1ECs84-0006B5-Kn; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 01:05:48 -0400 Original-To: Andreas Schwab In-reply-to: (message from Andreas Schwab on Tue, 06 Sep 2005 18:26:38 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:42689 Archived-At: (key-description [67108896]) => "C-SPC" (key-description "\C- ") => "C-@" > Emacs users learn quickly to read "^@" as "control @", and they also > learn that this is equivalent to "control SPC", but [67108896] is hard > to read and digest. Keys are just integers in Emacs. There is nothing that makes any integer special wrt to keys. It would be feasible to define a custom type that would display these vectors or strings of integers in a way that is convenient when they are really key sequences. It could be called `key-sequence'. I don't plan to do this myself.