From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Current mode command discovery Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 01:18:11 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87v9aubm96.fsf@gnus.org> <87r1laomak.fsf@gnus.org> <83im6mzpuk.fsf@gnu.org> <83czwuzo1w.fsf@gnu.org> <835z2mzlyo.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28746"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 21 07:19:34 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lDi5e-0007OO-Ez for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2021 07:19:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35780 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lDi5d-0004y1-FP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2021 01:19:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44490) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lDi4X-0004Um-Cl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2021 01:18:25 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58210) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lDi4X-00059M-5w; Sun, 21 Feb 2021 01:18:25 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lDi4J-0005Hn-BB; Sun, 21 Feb 2021 01:18:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: <835z2mzlyo.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 20 Feb 2021 19:29:51 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:265367 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > You distinguish between "commands" and "keys"? Emacs doesn't. C-f is > a _command_, not (just) a key. Using our terminology carefully, C-f is not a command. C-f is a key, and it is bound to the command forward-char. I'm often sloppy about this, and I suppose everyone is. But when these distinctions matter, let's follow the definitions. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)