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From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What're the proper names for the backspace and delete keys in files.texi?
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:25:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1EyhTR-00065Y-KN@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1060116122817.265C-100000@acm.acm> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:39:44 +0000 (GMT))

    For the third time of asking, would somebody (Richard?) please state
    definitively what the canonical names, to be used in files.texi, are for
    the "backspace" key (typically the large rectangular key above CR that
    deletes a single character backwards) and the "delete" key (typically the
    bottom leftmost key of a block of 6 keys directly to the right of CR,
    that deletes a single character forwards).

    I think the canonical names for these keys are, respectively, @key{DEL}
    and @key{DELETE} (with exactly that capitalization), but I'm not sure.

BACKSPACE or BS is the key labeled Backspace.  DELETE refers to the
key labeled "Delete".

DEL means the ASCII character 0177.  In Emacs, either DELETE or
BACKSPACE is equivalent to DEL.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-17  3:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-19 21:47 What're the proper names for the backspace and delete keys in files.texi? Alan Mackenzie
2005-12-20  5:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-20  7:06   ` Stefan Monnier
2006-01-12 13:16   ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-01-12 20:10     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-12 21:27       ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-01-13  8:04         ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-13  9:09         ` Neil Jerram
2006-01-13 16:55           ` Lennart Borgman
2006-01-13 17:26             ` Neil Jerram
2006-01-13 20:03             ` Aidan Kehoe
2006-01-13 19:38           ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-13 21:31             ` Drew Adams
2006-01-19 17:45     ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-16 12:39   ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-01-16 18:48     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2006-01-17  3:25     ` Richard M. Stallman [this message]
2006-01-17 11:00       ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-01-17 19:59         ` Richard M. Stallman

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