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: What're the proper names for the backspace and delete keys in files.texi? Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:25:33 -0500 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 1137468626 14364 80.91.229.2 (17 Jan 2006 03:30:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 03:30:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 17 04:30:25 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EyhXo-0002nF-Jd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 04:30:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eyha8-0001Rj-5p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:32:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EyhYa-0000CL-3P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:30:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EyhYY-0000Ai-CC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:30:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EyhYW-00009l-PX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:30:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Eyhc9-0001Ly-1O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:34:33 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1EyhTR-00065Y-KN; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:25:33 -0500 Original-To: Alan Mackenzie In-reply-to: (message from Alan Mackenzie on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:39:44 +0000 (GMT)) 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:49197 Archived-At: 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.